The White Hart Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A C18 Inn.
The White Hart Hotel
- WRENN ID
- silver-gargoyle-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The White Hart Hotel, 1-7, Castle Square, Benson
- OS grid reference
- SU 616 917
- Coordinates
- 51.621, -1.1107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Hart Hotel is an inn that likely dates from the late 18th century. It features painted stucco on brick and has a plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks. The building is three storeys high and has an eight-window range. There is a sash door located to the right of the centre, which includes a decorative overlight and a 19th-century wrought iron open porch with a gabled roof that has a scalloped edge. The ground and first floors have 12-pane sash windows, while the second floor has 6-pane sashes. A cornice runs between the first and second floors. The left side of the building is also three storeys high with a seven-window range, featuring three French windows at the centre of the ground floor, 12-pane sashes on the ground and first floors, and 6-pane sashes on the second floor. The roof is not visible due to the parapet. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The White Hart Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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