White Horse Inn

TL 96 NE 4/13

BADWELL ASH THE STREET (SOUTH SIDE)

White Horse Inn

GV II

Public house. C16, with early C19 exterior. Timber-framed, encased and extended in red brick, now painted; plaintiles; pierced and fluted bargeboards with spike finials to gables; brick dentil cornice. Various single-storey extensions at rear in flint and timber framing with pantiled roofs. 2 storeys and attics; 3-cell plan to main range. A red brick internal chimney-stack has a shaft with recessed panels and corbelled head. Small-paned sash windows: 4 to upper floor, in cased frames with slight reveals; 3 to ground floor with gauged heads to brickwork; one tripartite sash. Small recessed 6-panelled entrance door, the top 4 panels glazed, with a gauged head to the brick surround. Interior of main range in 2 distinct sections: to the left of the stack 3 bays with the remains of very good studding, short angled jowls to main posts, arched braces removed, one complete 5-light diamond-mullioned window on the rear upper wall. The main 2-bay room on the ground floor has very fine double roll-mouldings on main cross-beams and stops in leaf form; joists with run-off stops. The end bay, originally a separate parlour, has a main beam with leaf stop and bar. The roof over this section has principal rafters, clasped purlins, windbraces, and arched braces meeting at the centre below the cambered collar of the open truss. The inner side of the partition against the chimney-stack, and the rafters beside it, are heavily blackened, and formed part of a smoke-bay into which the stack was inserted later. To the right of the stack, the framing is mainly covered and of poorer quality; roof with butt and clasped purlins, much repaired. One C18 timber-framed rear wing has very poor framing.

Listing NGR: TL9909369146