The White Hart Hotel
THE WHITE HART HOTEL, 10, FOUNDRY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310761
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, 10, FOUNDRY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310761
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, 10, FOUNDRY 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:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, 10, FOUNDRY SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 55861 37095
Details
HAYLE FOUNDRY SQUARE (south side), SW 5437-5537 Hayle 10/96 No 10 (The White Hart Hotel) - GV II* Public house. Circa 1838. Built for Henry Harvey, brother-in-law of Richard Trevithick. Stuccoed walls. Scantle slate roof behind stuccoed parapet. Stuccoed chimneys over the side walls, left. Plan: rectangular plan 2 rooms wide and 3 rooms deep. 2 equal reception rooms a the front flanking a central entrance hall leading to a large stair hall behind the right-hand room. Classical style. Exterior: 3 storeys. Stuccoed elevations with classical detail. Rusticated courses at ground floor with stucco flat arches. North entrance front has the central doorway within a panelled stucco porch. Original pair of doors with latticed glazing and original fanlight with scrolled detail. Corners of the front are panelled pedestals carrying a giant order of clasping square fluted columns as antae to the 3 bays of the upper floors with 4 engaged giant round columns, the whole surmounted by a Tuscan entablature and a parapet with an open pediment at the middle with central round plaque. The columns are a kind of debased Roman Doric with an Egyptian influence to the design of the capitals First floor windows have moulded hoods on carved consoles. The side elevations have eared architraves to the first-floor windows with aprons under the sills. All the windows (except ground floor left of east elevation) are original hornless sashes with glazing bars. The west elevation has a tall round headed stair window. Interior: partly inspected. Entrance hall and stair hall have their original architectural details, including arches, plaster cornices and a fine open well stair with the mahogany handrail curving down to form the newel post. This building is erected on the site of the former Penpol pool (blamed by Henry Harvey for the spreading of cholera in the town). Sources: John B. Carter for the Trevithick Society ; Richard Trevithick by James Hodge ; The Harveys of Hayle by Edmund Vale.
Listing NGR: SW5586137095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vale, E, The Harveys of Hayle, (1966)
Hodge, J, Richard Trevithick, ()
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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