White Hart Hotel

CREWKERNE

ST4409 EAST STREET 876-1/7/59 (South side) 12/06/50 No.4 White Hart Hotel

GV II

House now hotel. Late C16/early C17. MATERIALS: painted limestone rubble with a Ham Hill stone plinth and dressings to the ground-floor windows, stepped stone coping and brick stack to the left gable end; stone stack with a brick top to the right-of-centre. PLAN: 3-unit through-passage plan with C19 rear wing to the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Windows to the first-floor, under the eaves which have been raised at the front, are C20 leaded 4-light casements. All the windows to the ground-floor, of varying heights, are under label moulds; 3 to the left have hollow-moulded stone mullions; 4-light to the far left, 3-light to the centre, and 2-light to the left of the C20 door. A 3-light casement to the right of the door has a wooden frame in a stone surround. INTERIOR: the central room has a quartered ceiling with stepped stop chamfers to the beams, and an open fireplace with a complex moulded slightly arched stone lintel, which backs onto the passage. The roof of the main building is 3-bays with ridge-in-notch trusses and 2 trenched purlins, jointed at the main rafters. The front wall has been raised, and the former main rafters remain.

Listing NGR: ST4419109800