The White Hart Inn

ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE (South side)

9/184 The White Hart Inn (formerly listed as The White Hart Hotel)

17.4.59

GV II

Inn. Apparently a late C18 refront of a much earlier building. Local lias stone cut and roughly squared, painted ashlar dressings; clay pantiled roof hipped at east end, stepped coped gable to west, behind parapet; stone and brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Rendered plinth, plain end pilasters, moulded coping to plain parapet: 16-pane sash windows in plain openings under timber lintols to first floor; below, double plain sash window in Regency style shopfront surround bay 1; 9 panel door with Regency flanking timber pilasters and plain timber hood on brackets, carrying timber model of a white hart, bay 2; triple plain sash window under timber lintol spanning bays 3 and 4; and wide boarded door under timber lintol bay 5; C20 hanging sign at first floor level. Interior not seen, but VCH reports an open timber roof of late medieval date on the upper floor of what was a gable cross wing. Earlier known as 'The Bear Inn'. (VCR, Volum\e III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4903928493