The White Hart Hotel

The White Hart Hotel is a public house built around 1838 in Hayle, Cornwall. Built for Henry Harvey, brother-in-law of Richard Trevithick, it stands on the south side of Hayle Foundry Square. The walls are stuccoed, with a scantle slate roof concealed behind a stuccoed parapet. Stuccoed chimneys rise over the side walls.

The building has a rectangular plan, comprising two rooms wide and three rooms deep. The front features two equal reception rooms, flanked by a central entrance hall leading to a large stair hall positioned behind the right-hand room. The architecture is of the Classical style.

The exterior is three storeys high and features stuccoed elevations with classical detailing. The ground floor has rusticated courses with stucco flat arches. The north-facing entrance front has a central doorway within a panelled stucco porch. The original pair of doors, featuring latticed glazing, and the original fanlight, adorned with scrolled details, remain. The corners of the front have panelled pedestals supporting a giant order of clasping, square, fluted columns, serving as antae for the three bays of the upper floors. These columns are topped by four engaged giant round columns and a Tuscan entablature, culminating in a parapet with an open pediment in the middle, bearing a central round plaque. The first-floor windows have moulded hoods resting on carved consoles. The side elevations display eared architraves to the first-floor windows, along with aprons beneath the sills. All windows (excluding the ground floor left of the east elevation) are original hornless sash windows with glazing bars. A tall, round-headed stair window is present on the west elevation.

The interior, partially inspected, retains original architectural details in the entrance hall and stair hall. This includes arches, plaster cornices, and a fine open-well staircase with a mahogany handrail that curves downwards to form the newel post. The building occupies the site of the former Penpol pool, which Henry Harvey blamed for the spread of cholera in the town.