White Hart Hotel

ST JOHN'S STREET 1. 1594 (East Side) No 1 (White Hart Hotel) SU 1429 NE 4/130 28.2.52. II* GV 2. Late C18. 3 storey. White brick on stone plinth with yellow rubbed window arches, moulded stone cornice and blocking course. Slate roof. Projecting central portico, early C19, full height of building wth a plain ground floor treatment of 3 stone arches on square piers facing street and one similar arch across pavement at each end, these arches support 4 Ionic stone columns, with 2 responding pilasters on wall face carried up 2 storeys and with moulded stone entablature and pediment crowned with a full size White Hart. The main wall face inside portico is painted stucco, with 3 windows all with moulded architraves and with additional cornices and pediment to central and other 1st floor windows, on ground floor under arcade 2 windows to right hand and 8-panel double doors, egg-and-tongue enrichment to panels, to left hand with architrave surround. 3 windows each side of portico to main block, totalling 9 bays. The portico has enriched and turned wood balustrade, with beautiful side guards of wrought iron scroll work and cypher G.R.; at angles of portico are horn shaped lamp brackets ofsimilar but more delicate wrought iron scroll work. Slightly later extension to right hand of 6 bays, with plain painted front. The portico is an important street feature. Only the windows in side te portico have glazing bars, original, the rest restored. Interior considerably altered. 2 bay modern extension to south in matching style. Nos 1 to 13 (odd) form a very important group.

Listing NGR: SU1457129722