The White Hart

ST 59 SE 3/112 22.3.79

AUST LITTLETON UPON SEVERN The White Hart

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Inn, formerly house. Late C17 with C20 single storey extension to rear north east. Rubble, roughcast, pantiled roof with gable stacks, T-plan including rear wings, symmetrical facade. 2½ storeys, 5 windows, all 3-light casements with wooden mullions, square on the outside, ovolo inside, central gabled porch with rendering removed to expose timber in gable, small light with chamfered frame and iron diamond stanchion above each bench, 2-panel door with raised mouldings, reverse with strap hinges and studs, 2 attic dormers, each with 3-light casement. Interior: 2 ground floor rooms have rebated and stopped ovolo mouldings to main beams; north room has a wide fireplace with wooden lintel with stopped ovolo moulding, spit brackets above bread oven in pointed recess to left, kettle bracket to right, arched cupboard to right. South room has large bolection surround fireplace with flanking panelled cupboards, left hand cupboard retaining one splat baluster of vent panel, fireplace wall panelled. Fine staircase with turned balusters on chequered chip-carved string, heavy moulded handrail, incised risers and moulded bulkheads; the stairs are in a tight square and rise to full height of the house, attic flight has no balusters apart from half balusters carved on the newel posts. Rear wing contained dairy and pantry, extended early C18 by the addition of it storey block containing room with cheese loft over, approximately one metre deep milk cellar beneath rear wing. (Sources: Hall, Linda Rural of Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST5960090025