The White Hart

Former coaching inn. Built in the C18 and re-fronted in the early C19. C19, C20 and C21 alterations and additions.

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

PLAN: an L-shaped plan, with the public bar to the front and the former accommodation wing, with a first-floor assembly room to the rear. There is a single-storey building beyond, possibly former stables.

EXTERIOR: a two-storey, three-bay principal elevation of almost symmetrical proportions. To the central bay is a canopy supported on Tuscan columns. The doorway is framed by Tuscan pilasters, panelled reveals, and has a semi-circular fanlight above the four-panel door; the upper panels are glazed. To either side is an eight-over-eight sash window. To the first floor are three, six-over-six sash windows. The moulded string course and fascia may be a remodelling of a former cornice and parapet wall. There is a moulded gutter box supported on timber brackets above.

To the rear is a single-bay, two-storey addition that cuts across a window to 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 to the first floor and two eight-over-eight sash windows to the second floor. There is a single-storey range beyond.

INTERIOR: includes a first-floor assembly room with an elaborate early C19 plaster cornice. Further historic fixtures and fittings may survive.