The White Hart

The White Hart is a former coaching inn built in the 18th century and re-fronted in the early 19th century, with additional alterations and additions from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

The building features rendered principal and rear elevations, possibly over cob, with pitched roofs covered in slate tiles. The gable-end walls are also hung with slate tiles, and there is a brick stack on the south gable. The windows are timber-framed hornless sashes with glazing bars.

The plan is L-shaped, with the public bar at the front and a former accommodation wing that includes a first-floor assembly room at the rear. There is a single-storey building beyond, which may have been used as stables.

The exterior showcases a two-storey, three-bay principal elevation that is nearly symmetrical. The central bay has a canopy supported by Tuscan columns. The doorway is framed by Tuscan pilasters and panelled reveals, topped with a semi-circular fanlight above a four-panel door, where the upper panels are glazed. On either side of the door are eight-over-eight sash windows, while the first floor features three six-over-six sash windows. A moulded string course and fascia may represent a remodelling of a former cornice and parapet wall, with a moulded gutter box supported by timber brackets above.

At the rear, there is a single-bay, two-storey addition that interrupts a window on the rear elevation of the principal range. The rear range continues as a roughly three-bay, three-storey addition with twelve-over-eight sash windows on the first floor and two eight-over-eight sash windows on the second floor. A single-storey range extends beyond this.

Inside, there is a first-floor assembly room that boasts an elaborate early 19th-century plaster cornice, and further historic fixtures and fittings may still be present.