The White Horse Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. Hotel.

The White Horse Hotel

WRENN ID
fading-sandstone-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mole Valley
Constituency
Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1951
Type
Hotel
Address
The White Horse Hotel, 144-148, High Street, RH4 1BE
OS grid reference
TQ 166 494
Coordinates
51.23257, -0.33002
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Horse Hotel, originally known as the Cross House due to its sign of the Cross of the Knights of St John, is a building constructed in two sections with a carriage entrance to the yard between them. The south-west section is a timber-framed structure that was refronted in the 18th century. It has two storeys and features seven windows, rough plaster, gables at each end, and a modillion eaves cornice connecting them. There is a string course above the ground floor and a tiled roof. The ground floor has large 19th-century bay windows below the gables, with glazing bars otherwise intact. Inside, there are ceiling beams. The entrance to the yard is marked by a bay window above it and a projecting gable above that.

The north-east section of the hotel dates from the early 19th century and also has two storeys with five windows. It is made of painted brick and includes a string course, eaves cornice, and a tiled hipped roof, with glazing bars intact. The doorway features pilasters and a projecting cornice above. There was once another carriage entrance at the north-east end of this section, which has since been converted into a shop, with two windows above, a cornice, and a parapet. The hotel is part of a group with Nos 132 to 156 (even) and Nos 164 to 170 (even).

Local climate

The White Horse Hotel receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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