The White Hart Inn
THE WHITE HART INN, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307421
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HART INN, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307421
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HART INN, MARKET PLACE
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:
- THE WHITE HART INN, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49035 28501
Details
ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE (South side)
9/184 The White Hart Inn (formerly listed as The White Hart Hotel)
17.4.59
GV II
Inn. Apparently a late C18 refront of a much earlier building. Local lias stone cut and roughly squared, painted ashlar dressings; clay pantiled roof hipped at east end, stepped coped gable to west, behind parapet; stone and brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Rendered plinth, plain end pilasters, moulded coping to plain parapet: 16-pane sash windows in plain openings under timber lintols to first floor; below, double plain sash window in Regency style shopfront surround bay 1; 9 panel door with Regency flanking timber pilasters and plain timber hood on brackets, carrying timber model of a white hart, bay 2; triple plain sash window under timber lintol spanning bays 3 and 4; and wide boarded door under timber lintol bay 5; C20 hanging sign at first floor level. Interior not seen, but VCH reports an open timber roof of late medieval date on the upper floor of what was a gable cross wing. Earlier known as 'The Bear Inn'. (VCR, Volum\e III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4903928493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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