The White Hart
THE WHITE HART, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173969
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HART, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173969
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HART, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE WHITE HART, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Markyate
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05920 16751
Details
MARKYATE HIGH STREET TL 0516 (East side) 7/151 The White Hart - GV II
Public house, now a private house. 1905 rebuild after partial destruction by fire (Coote (1977)18), became a private house 1965-71 (ibid. 24). Plum brick with red dressings and red rubbed arches. Steep slate roof. 2-storeys, basement and attics, 2 windows wide building facing W on an acute angled corner site, with canted S end prominent in street scene. Front symmetrical with 2 box dormers added on roofslope, central plastered recess with 'THE WHITE HART' in decorative relief lettering above central door with rectangular fanlight and 4 panels door (renewed). 2 2-light transomed casement windows on 1st floor under same flat gauged arches as central recess with small panes above the moulded transoms and plastered reveals. 2 larger 3-light similar windows on ground floor with acid etched decorative obscured glass panels in lower lights. One recessed sash window to each floor on S end with 6/6 panes and flat gauged arches. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TL0592016751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157930
- 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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