White Hart Public House

The White Hart is a late-Victorian public house built in the 1880s by an unknown architect. It is constructed from local stone with red brick banding. The building has a conical-shaped roof with deep eaves, covered in slate, and features a central domed lantern. A large stone stack is located to the left. A former beer store, built of red stone with a Roman tiled roof, is situated to the rear.

The building’s original plan largely survives. It includes an entrance hall with stairs leading to a first-floor flat. The ground floor contains a public bar and a small private lounge. In 1985, the rear lounge and part of the former beer store, attached to the north, were linked and opened up to create another public bar. A skittle alley was likely added to the far end of the beer store sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.

The five-bay facade gently curves on the corner and features projecting sill bands to both floors, along with flush stone bands at window head level. Further flush bands in red brick run below the centre of the window openings. Ground-floor windows have shouldered flat arches. A tripartite corner window is flanked to the left by two sash windows and to the right by the main entrance, which has a large six-panelled door with a light above. A further sash window is located to the right of the entrance. The original first-floor configuration included five window openings; the second one from the left is now blocked. The remaining four windows retain their six-over-six pane sashes. The two-storey beer store to the rear right is slightly lower and features a large entrance to the left and a doorway to the right, with two double casement windows set into the corners of the elevation.

Much of the late-Victorian interior remains intact, including several original fixtures and fittings. The entrance hall has full-height wall panelling, a former Jug and Bottle Hatch and a staircase with turned balusters. The public bar retains its original counter and bar back, a tiled and cast-iron fireplace, timber-panelled dados, fixed timber benches along the walls and under the windows, and full-height timber wall panelling at the bar entrance in the corner. The private lounge has timber dados with fixed seats and a cast-iron fireplace. Elements of the former rear lounge, now incorporated into the larger bar, include a cast-iron fireplace and timber dado. The first-floor rooms have Victorian cast-iron fireplaces with grates, and the landing is lit by a cast-iron domed lantern.