Number 2, The White Horse, Including Lamp Bracket and Hand Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1986. Public house, house, shop.

Number 2, The White Horse, Including Lamp Bracket and Hand Pump

WRENN ID
proud-flue-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Thanet
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 October 1986
Type
Public house, house, shop
Address
Number 2, The White Horse, Including Lamp Bracket and Hand Pump, Church Street, Minster
OS grid reference
TR 311 642
Coordinates
51.33077, 1.3165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 2, The White Horse, is a public house that has been converted into a house and shop. It dates from around 1700, with alterations made in the early 19th century and an extension added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of painted brick and features plain tiled roofs.

The main range is two storeys high, set on a plinth, and has irregular bonding, boxed eaves, and a Dutch gable on the right return. There are stacks located at the rear left and the end right of the building. The first floor has three sash windows, while the ground floor features three canted bay windows, along with evidence of earlier blocked window spaces. Two margin-light glazed and panelled doors are located to the centre left, framed by a moulded surround with pilasters and a cornice. An identical single door and surround can be found at the end right. The date 1960 is inscribed in the pedimented gable at the right return, indicating a restoration.

The 19th-century addition to the left is also two storeys high, with a curved frontage that faces the road corner. It has regular fenestration, featuring three segmental-headed sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, along with a central half-glazed door that has a flat hood and a gauged roundel on the left return, which includes the White Horse symbol.

Attached to the corner of the building is a late 19th-century cast iron lamp bracket, adorned with scrolled decoration and an original finial, although it now holds a late 20th-century electric lamp. In the front court, there is a cast iron hand pump with an open pumphead and a swept handle.

Local climate

Number 2, The White Horse, Including Lamp Bracket and Hand Pump sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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