The White Hart Hotel

SU 75 SW 8/6

LONDON ROAD, HOOK

The White Hart Hotel

8.7.52

II

C18, early C19. Old Coaching Inn, with buildings around a yard: the front (Early C19) of 2 storeys in 2 sections. The larger taller western part (of near-symmetrical form) is dominated by a carriageway entrance with 2 square Doric columns and 2 pilasters, supporting an angular 1st floor bay, with 2 windows to the east and 3 to the west. Red tile hipped roof, also hipped bay, with moulded wood eaves cornice: at the east end a massive rectangular stack has 3 tall flues, the outer ones set diagonally. Stucco walls. Sashes in reveals. The bay has boarded walling and sash windows, the central being a Venetian light, with the eaves cornice carried above as a pediment. The eastern part is of 1.1.1 windows, with a single-storeyed modern extension. Red tile roof, moulded eaves cornice, formed into a pediment above the slightly projecting centre. Stucco walls. Large sashes, a large angular ground-floor bay to the west side. The former central door is now a sash window and the blank panel above it carries a decorative wrought-iron sign bracket. The former main entrance retains its large panelled doors but the only entrance on the front is a plain door in the centre of the west side. A long 2 storeyed red brick range forms an L- wing from the west and, finishing in a building with exposed timber-framing. Within the yard is a granary on staddles, with weather-boarded walls and a red tile ½-hipped roof.

Listing NGR: SU7252054267