White Hart Hotel
WHITE HART HOTEL, 2, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247314
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HART HOTEL, 2, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247314
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HART HOTEL, 2, LONDON ROAD
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, 2, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99936 70696
Details
CALNE
ST9970 LONDON ROAD 755-1/5/87 (East side) 19/05/50 No.2 White Hart Hotel (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD No.2 White Hart Inn)
GV II*
Inn, now hotel and public house. Late C16, E range mid C18, N and W ranges rebuilt late C18-early C19, S range early C19. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings and ridge and lateral stacks, and slate hipped roof with stone slates to the S range. Courtyard plan. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 5:3-window range. W entrance range has a central raised portico with paired Doric columns to an entablature and 6-panel door; early C19 6/6-pane sashes with architraves, with smaller sashes at right-hand end with timber lintels; left-hand late C16 semi-basement window with reserved chamfers. Right-hand 3-window early C19 single-storey range with 6/6-pane sashes, and a parapeted 1-window end range in stucco with a cornice. 5-window N range over late C16 semi-basement, has a segmental-arched courtyard entrance one bay from the left-hand end with a chamfered ashlar surround and 2-leaf boarded doors, with 3:2 windows at the front, either side of a lateral, moulded ashlar stack; semi-basement windows with 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window to the left-hand end and late C16 reserved chamfered stone window to the right; 2 mid C19 hipped casement dormers. S elevation has a pair of gables to lateral brick stacks, over a central 3-light canted bay, 1 left-hand and 3 first-floor windows, all with 6/6-pane sashes; to the right a wide courtyard entrance. Courtyard has E elevation with mid C18 sashes with timber lintels and exposed boxes. Central framed door with a Sun Insurance Co fire sign on oak lintel. N range with horizontal sliding sashes to first floor, and late C18 sashes on the ground floor; hipped dormers. INTERIOR: details include a semi-basement to the N range that returns at the E end with a C16 stone winder stair, with chamfered stone posts supporting lateral beams, and segmental vaults to each end. Above is a mid C18 open-well stair with turned balusters and moulded rail and panelled dado; first-floor has C18 stone fire surround with small cast-iron grates; roof renewed. E range has chamfered axial beams and stone fire surrounds. W range has early C19 stone fireplaces with hob grates. C19 S range has collar truss roof with tenoned purlins and lapped collars. HISTORICAL NOTE: the late C17 semi-basement is continuous with Nos 19 & 20 The Green (qqv); rebuilt above this in late C18. There is a reference to the Hart in the Guild Steward's Book of 1659. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire: London: 1963-1975: 159).
Listing NGR: ST9993670696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456536
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 159
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1963), 159
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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