The White Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1966. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

The White Horse Inn

WRENN ID
lesser-tin-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 November 1966
Type
Inn
Address
The White Horse Inn, Woolstone, SN7 7QL
OS grid reference
SU 293 878
Coordinates
51.58832, -1.57758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Horse Inn is a 17th-century house that has been converted into an inn. It features a timber-framed structure with square framing and diagonal bracing. The right gable wall was rebuilt in the 20th century, and the building has a 20th-century tile roof with a brick stack. The inn has a two-unit plan and is two stories high with a two-window range. There is a central 20th-century porch and door. On the first floor, there are early 19th-century canted five-light leaded windows, and flanking the door are 6-light leaded windows with decorative top lights set in canted bays, topped with a stone slate roof. Each side wing has a gabled roof, and there is an internal stack on the front left.

Inside, there is a shouldered flat arch leading to a stone fireplace in the front right room, and some main chamfered and stopped beams remain, although the interior has been extensively remodelled. The left wing has rendered walling and retains 17th-century three-light casements with ovolo-moulded mullions. The rear block, also from the 17th century, has a timber frame on the right side only and is thatched, with a lateral brick stack. There is a 20th-century lean-to against the gable wall.

Local climate

The White Horse Inn receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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