WHITE HART INN

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:: WHITE HART INN, SALISBURY SQUARE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.