White Hart Hotel
WHITE HART HOTEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107009
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HART HOTEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107009
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HART HOTEL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HART HOTEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bow
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 71942 01801
Details
BOW BOW (north side) SS 70 SW 2/14 White Hart Hotel - GV II
Hotel. Late C16/early C17, mostly rebuilt and enlarged in early C19, facade with later C19 applied decorative timber framing. Older part is plastered rubble and cob with concrete tile roof. Rear outshut of early C19 brick. Rear service block of exposed rubble with slate roof. Frontae has applied timber framing. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south with inner room at left (west) end. Now only original inner room surives sharing same roofline as adjoining Brook Villa (q.v.). Hall, passage and service room rebuilt in early C19 with contemporary stair block to rear of hall and 2-storey brick rear porch to passage which was built wide enough for a carriageway. Rear service wing at right angles behind service room. Rear lateral stacks to hall and inner rooms and now disused end stack to service end room. Rebuilt part breaks forward and is built higher than the original part. 2 storeys. Nearly-symmetrical 3-window front to main (rebuilt) section comprising C19 16-pane sashes and, ground floor left, a horned 20-pane sash with narrow 4-pane side sash. The wide doorway is set slightly right of centre. It contains a 6-panel door with a massive door frame made partly from reused C17 timbers. First floor has applied Tudor-style timber framing. The former inner room recessed at left end has C20 glass roofed porch to secondary doorway and a first floor tripartite sash with central 12-pane sash. First floor also has applied framing. Rear passage porch has brick segmental arch to carriageway surmounted by carved sandstone Norman-style head. Interior preserves much C19 joinery. The older inner room end is separated from hall by late C16/early C17 oak plank-and-muntin screen which has muntins chamfered on hall side only. The stops have worn away. Inner room has plain chamfered crossbeam and rubble fireplace with soffit-chamfered and step-stopped oak lintel. Hall has large late C16/early C17 rubble fireplace with granite jambs and plain oak lintel. Roof not accessible over inner room but bases of principals indicate probably C17 A-frame truss. Roof of main block not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7194201801
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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