The White Hart Hotel (Part)

The White Hart Hotel (part) is an inn, now a hotel, dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with extensions from the 18th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of timber framing with brick infill, some areas colourwashed, and has old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. The building has a complex plan. The original three-bay section on the right has triple gables and two shallow jetties supported by moulded bressumers. The ground floor features a carriage entry and a double horizontal-sliding sash window. The first floor exhibits exposed timber framing with decorative brick infill patterns, including herringbones, lozenges, and the date 1691 formed from black bricks. The first-floor windows are 16-pane sashes, replacing earlier oriels for which evidence remains. The top floor contains three small horizontal-sliding sashes. To the left is a five-window brick range with a storey band and a brick dentil eaves course, built in three sections: two 20th-century bays on the extreme left, two central bays with an entrance and a 16-pane sash window, and a wide bay with 16-pane sashes on both the ground and first floors. The roofs incorporate large stacks to the left of the earlier range and on the ridge of the lower range. A further 18th-century range runs parallel to the brick range and has a half-hipped roof. Projecting at the rear are an 18th/19th-century outbuilding range and a taller 20th-century brick range. The interior was not inspected. The hotel now incorporates numbers 22 and 24 High Street.