White Horse Inn

WHITE HORSE INN, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1307209
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
White Horse Inn
Statutory Address:
WHITE HORSE INN, THE SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1307209
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
White Horse Inn
Statutory Address 1:
WHITE HORSE INN, THE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WHITE HORSE INN, THE SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Moretonhampstead
National Park:
Dartmoor
National Grid Reference:
SX 75306 86034

Details

MORETONHAMPSTEAD THE SQUARE (south side), SX 7586 Moretonhampstead 8/172 White Horse Inn - GV II

Public house. Circa 1840-50 with slightly later C19 addition to right and late C19 rear wing. C20 interior alterations and rear additions. Roughcast stone rubble with stuccoed details, originally entirely stuccoed. Bitumen coated slate roofs with gabled ends. Rendered stack at left-hand gable end with cornice. Brick stack at right-hand gable end. Original plan was principal room on either side of entrance. The carriageway to right with a room above was probably a slightly later addition. Late C19 rear wing. Rear yard roofed over and ground floor partitions in original range removed in C20. 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 5-window range, wider spaced to right over carriageway. The facade has moulded plinth, heavy moulded stucco cornice and stuccoed parapet with coping. All 12-pane sashes with later louvred shutters. Ground floor left 2-light sash. Over the 2-central windows a stuccoed hoodmould. Over the carriageway and right-hand window a heavy moulded stuccoed cornice. Doorway to left of centre has fielded and moulded 6-panel door with rectangular overlight and C20 wooden canopy. Late C19 gabled dormer to right. A largely unaltered C19 facade in a prominent town centre situation.

Listing NGR: SX7531486019

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
85104
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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