White Hart Hotel And The Assembly Rooms

The White Hart Hotel and the Assembly Rooms is a hotel that incorporates former assembly rooms, located at a street junction in Modbury. It dates from the early 19th century and features smooth rendered walls with slate roofs. The building consists of two wide sections with low-pitched gables facing the street, and it extends down Poundwell Street, leading to a wide opening that opens into an internal courtyard.

The hotel section on the left is two storeys high and has three windows. The ground floor has tripartite sash windows, with a central 16-pane window flanked by diamond-set bars. On the first floor, there are three 16-pane sashes, all set in plain reveals. The central entrance features a 6-panel flush door with a diamond-pane overlight, framed by pilasters and adorned with Greek key ornamentation on the frieze. It has a small flat hood and panelled reveals. The front is framed by plain pilasters on a small plinth, topped with a full-width pediment that is closed by a plat-band. There are ridge stacks set back centrally, along with a smaller eaves stack to the left.

On Poundwell Street, the first floor has four 16-pane sashes above three similar windows, with the central window positioned above cellar access. To the left, there is a broad elliptical opening with a keystone, which contains two heavy plank doors.

The Assembly Rooms, located to the right on Church Street, are also two storeys high and have three windows similar to those of the White Hart. However, they feature three 4-pane windows over two 16-pane windows flanking a central 6-panel flush door with a plain overlight and a simple pilaster doorcase. The back of this section has a 9-pane sash window set in a slate-hung wall.

This building is an important visual element at the street crossing and has seen little alteration to its exterior. In front of the building, there is a large granite lintel set into the pavement, shaped in a basket-handle form with a central ogee curve, likely salvaged from the demolished Champernowne House.