White Hart Inn
WHITE HART INN, SALISBURY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268690
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Inn
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HART INN, SALISBURY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268690
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HART INN, SALISBURY SQUARE
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 INN, SALISBURY SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32698 12624
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE SALISBURY SQUARE
817-1/17/197 (East side)
10/02/50 White Hart Inn
GV II
Inn, now public house with manager's flat over. C17, partly
refronted C18, altered internally 1980s after fire.
Timber-framed and plastered, red brick, laid to Flemish bond.
Old tiled roof with hipped corner. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. North wing refaced in brick, 3
flush-set 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds under
rubbed brick flat arches, spaced 2:1, to ground and first
floors. Plat band at first-floor level. North elevation of
south range refaced in brick. First floor with 3 flush-set
12-pane sash windows, spaced 2:1, and first-floor plat band.
Ground floor has early C20 glazed entrance screen at right,
panelled artificial stone stallriser, projecting pilaster at
right flanking fascia panel beneath sill level of first-floor
windows. To right, single flush-set 12-pane sash, far right
corner splayed at ground-floor level, with moulded corbelled
brickwork with ogee profile supporting jettied first-floor
corner of west elevation.
First floor has exposed C17 thin studwork with primary
bracing, plastered and colourwashed panels between; flush-set
12-pane sash to right, roll moulded first-floor bressumer.
Recessed 3 bay ground floor, with timber Tuscan Doric columns
on plinths forming an arcade, plastered between, with 2
flush-set 12-pane sash windows and twin leaf C20 entrance
doors at right. To roof 5 C20 gable casement dormers, all
replaced after fire. Large flat roofed extension at rear is
not of special interest.
INTERIOR: much opened out and altered on ground floor, exposed
beam with mortices indicates the earlier presence of a
set-back stud front wall behind the originally open arcade.
Close string newel stair with column on vase balusters and
moulded handrail. First floor and attics retain few visible
features of historic interest, and roof structure renewed
after fire.
(East Herts Archaeological Society Newsletter: The White Hart
Inn: Hertford: 1949-1954).
Listing NGR: TL3269812624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter, (1949-1954)
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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