The White Hart Hotel

ST 7814 STURMINSTER NEWTON MARKET CROSS (WEST SIDE)

8/157 The White Hart Hotel 4.10.60 G.V. II

Inn, dated 1708 but may be earlier. Heavily colour-washed brick, stone quoins, thatched roof hipped to the right. 2 storeys and attic, 6 window range. The ground floor has 3 canted bays with glazing bars, probably of the C19. To the left is a passage to the rear with a large lintel. The door has segmental hood on shaped brackets. Above the passage the first floor has been partially set into the roof by an eyebrow dormer. This part has a 5-light wooden casement in a wooden frame. All other first floor windows are of 3 lights in wooden frames with centrally opening iron casements with leaded-lights. In the roof are 2 dormers having 2-light wooden casement windows with leaded-lights. Internally, the building is much altered but deep chamfered ceiling beams are visible. A date stone reads "RWM 1708". "RCHM, Dorset, Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p 279, no 17.

Listing NGR: ST7862714075