The White Horse Inn

ST0937 STOGUMBER CP HIGH STREET (North side)

11/169 The White Horse Inn

22.5.69

GV II

Inn with stables and adjoining market hall, now inn with skittles alley and restaurant. Inn C18, market hall circa 1800, and stables dated 1867, the latter both altered mid C20. Inn: rendered over rubble, steeply pitched slate roofs, brick stacks gable end right and rising from below roof ridge left. Plan: inn with attached market hall right; set back at rear long stable frontage onto street. Inn 2 storeys, facade divided with long single bay block left and recessed 3 bays right; 16 pane sash windows first floor, ground floor blocked entrance outer bay left, tripartite sash window and 16 pane sash window flanking gabled, slate roofed porch, decorative bargeboards, 2 x 3 panel door, panelled reveals rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. Old market house attached end bay right; rendered, pyramid slate roof, overhanging eaves, coved cornice, pilaster quoins. 2 storeys, 2 bays; 16 pane sash windows first floor, C20 casements below. Stables: red sandstone random rubble, slate roof, single storey, 5 bays with pedimented centre; most of the openings blocked or refenestrated. The stables were converted into a skittles alley in the mid C20. The White Horse Inn is recorded in 1748 and the market hall fell into disuse in the 1860's. (Photograph in NMR; VCH Somerset, vol 5, forthcoming).

Listing NGR: ST0980937352