The White Hart Hotel

LAUNCESTON

SX3284 BROAD STREET 660-1/4/11 (South East side) 27/02/50 No.15 The White Hart Hotel

GV II

Large public house. C18, incorporating mid C12 doorway reputedly from Priory of Saint Thomas (qv) but more likely from Launceston Castle. Painted brick, probably on rubble, front with mid-floor band above ground floor and shallow segmental arches; dry Delabole hipped roof with modillion cornice and brick end stacks; small central roof-light. Double-depth plan plus wings ranged around a courtyard infilled in C20. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window front (2nd floor). Late C19 paired horned 2-pane sashes exept for single sash to centre of 2nd floor; central doorway with moulded hood over Norman doorway of volcanic stone with 2 orders of nook shafts and round-arched frieze of lozenges to outer order; C18 studded door. INTERIOR: features include C18 moulded ceiling cornice to front right-hand room and entrance hall and c1800 open-well staircase with open string, stick balusters and ramped mahogany handrail, wreathed over newel, with C20 cap.

Listing NGR: SX3316184532