FORMER WHITE HART HOTEL

FORMER WHITE HART HOTEL, 34, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196426
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: FORMER WHITE HART HOTEL
Statutory Address:: FORMER WHITE HART HOTEL, 34, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196426
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: FORMER WHITE HART HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER WHITE HART HOTEL, 34, MARKET PLACE

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER WHITE HART HOTEL, 34, MARKET PLACE

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County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Newark
National Grid Reference:: SK 79897 53840

Details

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NE MARKET PLACE 619-1/8/237 (South side) 29/09/50 No.34 Former White Hart Hotel

GV II*

Former hotel, now building society office. Dated by dendrochronology as follows: rear (south) wing c1312, extended c1526 and remodelled C17. East wing c1320. Front range c1470, rear gallery and stair turret early C16, glazed mid C17. Altered c1870. Main ranges restored 1983 and south wing restored 1990, by Guy St John Taylor Associates. Timber framing with rendered rubble and brick nogging, with pantile roofs and plain tile verges. Close studded 3 storey front range, 3 storeys, 4 bays, has to left a recessed unjettied bay with a 16 pane sash. The 3 bays to right are jettied and have continuous windows with wooden traceried heads. Above each billeted bressummer are plaster figures with crocketed canopies attached to each stud. On the ground floor, an open carriageway flanked to right by a C20 shopfront with 2 windows. At the rear above the carriageway, a 2 bay jettied glazed gallery with turned mullions. South wing has to right 4 bay range, C14, formerly an open hall, 2 storeys plus attics. Colourwashed brick underbuild, close studding above, with render. Similar lower C16 range to left, 2 storeys plus attics, 5 bays, has a coped gable. Both have scattered fenestration, mostly C19 and C20. East wing, formerly a first floor hall, has a gable stack. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Painted brick underbuild with rendered timber framing above. Two 12 pane sashes on each floor, those below being smaller. The 2 right hand bays have a lower pitched roof and form part of the adjoining C19 public house, whose main range conceals them. 3 storey stair turret in return angle has C20 brick underbuild and arch braced close studding above. On the upper floors, a continuous window on each side, 6 and 7 lights, those facing the carriageway with C17 turned balusters. Interior: south wing north end has the upper parts of jowled posts, collar beam and substantial remains of a collar purlin roof. 5 bays to south have some wall studs and mainly C19 roof. East wing has framed gable and 2 trusses with arch braces. The two western bays have a restored collar purlin roof. Front range first floor has chamfered spine and span beams and central stud wall with C20 screens in the other bays. 2 western bays have wall painting. Second floor has stud walls, some with arch braces, and chamfered span beams with arch braces. Eastern bay has wall painting. Single purlin roof with wind braces except in the eastern bay. Stair turret has single purlin roof and patterned framing in the gable. This building was an inn from c1430 to c1870, after which it was converted to a shop. Described by Pevsner as "one of the paramount examples of late C15 timber framed architecture in England". (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 192-193; P Siddall: Survey drawings from restoration of 1983; P Siddall: Historical notes compiled during 1983 restoration; P Siddall).

Listing NGR: SK7989753840

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Legacy System number:: 385089
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 192-193

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.