The White Horse Inn
THE WHITE HORSE INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174561
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The White Horse Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HORSE INN, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174561
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The White Horse Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HORSE INN, 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 HORSE INN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stogumber
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 09811 37341
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264932
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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