Former White Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1972. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
Former White Horse Inn
- WRENN ID
- gentle-rubblework-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Former White Horse Inn, Church Street, Whitby, YO22 4BH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 900 111
- Coordinates
- 54.48757, -0.61179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former White Horse Inn dates to the late 18th century. It is a three-storey building rendered in white, featuring two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. A heavy cornice runs above the ground floor. The ground floor contains a single three-light window, a passage archway to the left, and an early 20th-century doorway to the right. This doorway has Ionic reeded pilasters on plinths, topped with a non-classical pediment, and incorporates half-glazed double doors. Originally named the White Horse and Griffin, the inn was built in honour of the Cholmley family. It is notable as the starting point for the first stagecoach route from Whitby to York in 1788. The inn is referenced in Miss Ethel Kidson’s novel 'Herringfleet' and Charles Dickens recorded that oyster shell grottos were once a feature of the yard. The building forms a group with numbers 84 to 90 (even), The Black Horse Public House, numbers 93 to 100 (consecutive), numbers 105 to 112A (consecutive), and numbers 114 to 117 (consecutive).
Local climate
Former White Horse Inn receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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