White Horse Hotel
WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 4, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274102
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- White Horse Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 4, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274102
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- White Horse Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 4, 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:
- WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 4, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7134128650
Details
ST7128 WINCANTON CP HIGH STREET (South side)
8/153 No 4
(White Horse Hotel)
24.3.61
GV II*
Inn. Dated 1733. By Nathaniel Ireson. Local stone cut and squared with painted ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof
behind parapet, simple gables; brick end chimney stacks. 3-storey, 3 bays. In a free baroque Georgian. Plinth, cill
course, cornice above first floor level, rusticated quoins up to cornice with Egyptian type pilasters above supporting
band course in lieu of parapet; 12-pane sash windows those to outer ground floor bays paired, with rusticated mullions
and jambs, triple keystones through entablature and segmental pediments over, and under these windows blocked 2-light
cellar windows; between bays entrance, up 3 steps with deeply recessed doors, framed by Gibbsian surround with
quintruple keystone, centre incised G.D 1733 (George Deane, proprietor at that date); protruding through entablature
into open pediment; first floor windows double in outer bays, simple surrounds with triple keystones, all windows with
thick glazing bars; similar surround to second floor windows, which are 2-light small pane casements: double hanging
sign with elaborate wrot ironwork ar first floor level between hays 2 and 3. Much extended and altered to rear.
Interior not seen. Inn first recorded 1655, but completely rebuilt in 1733. (Sweetman,G: History of Wincanton,
c1904.)
Listing NGR: ST7134128650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416222
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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