The White Hart Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Inn.

The White Hart Hotel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Inn
Address
The White Hart Hotel, Market Cross, Sturminster Newton
OS grid reference
ST 786 140
Coordinates
50.92569, -2.30542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Hart Hotel is an inn dated 1708, though it may be older. It features heavily colour-washed brick with stone quoins and a thatched roof that is hipped to the right. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a six-window range. On the ground floor, there are three canted bays with glazing bars, likely from the 19th century. To the left, there is a passage leading to the rear, marked by a large lintel. The entrance door is topped with a segmental hood supported by shaped brackets. Above the passage, the first floor is partially set into the roof, featuring an eyebrow dormer with a five-light wooden casement window in a wooden frame. The other first-floor windows are three-light wooden frames with centrally opening iron casements and leaded-lights. The roof includes two dormers, each with two-light wooden casement windows with leaded-lights. Inside, the building has undergone significant alterations, but deep chamfered ceiling beams are still visible. A date stone inside reads "RWM 1708."

Local climate

The White Hart Hotel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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