White Hart Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Public house. 1 related planning application.
White Hart Inn
- WRENN ID
- first-steel-curlew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- White Hart Inn, London Road, Blythburgh, IP19 9LQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 453 753
- Coordinates
- 52.32173, 1.59824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Hart Inn is a former coaching inn that now operates as a public house. It dates from the early to mid-16th century and has undergone various alterations and additions over the years. The building features a timber frame with plasterwork on the rear and the north gable end, while the south side showcases a mid to late 17th-century red brick Dutch gable end. The front facade is made of painted brick from the mid-19th century. The roof is covered with modern plain tiles on the front slope and pantiles on the rear.
The inn is two storeys tall with an attic and has a six-window range, featuring inset sashes with glazing bars and flat arches with raised keys. The doorway is asymmetrical and includes a six-panel door, with a second doorway that has since been removed. The Dutch gable has a brick band at the first-floor level and brick coping on the parapet. There is one internal stack and another stack located at the Dutch gable end. A 17th-century gabled staircase extension is present at the rear, along with various 20th-century extensions.
Inside, the inn boasts fine, heavily roll-moulded beams and joists in two bays of the ground floor ceiling. There is a 17th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, newels featuring ornamental finials, and a moulded handrail. Additionally, a first-floor room contains some 16th-century panelling, which may have been reused from another part of the building.
Local climate
White Hart Inn receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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