The White Hart

THE WHITE HART

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312765
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1979
List Entry Name:
The White Hart
Statutory Address:
THE WHITE HART
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Date:
2001-10-09
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312765
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1979
List Entry Name:
The White Hart
Statutory Address 1:
THE WHITE HART

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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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:
THE WHITE HART

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

District:
South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Aust
National Grid Reference:
ST5960090025

Details

ST 59 SE
3/112
22.3.79

AUST
LITTLETON UPON SEVERN
The White Hart

II

Inn, formerly house. Late C17 with C20 single storey extension to rear north
east. Rubble, roughcast, pantiled roof with gable stacks, T-plan including
rear wings, symmetrical facade. 2½ storeys, 5 windows, all 3-light casements
with wooden mullions, square on the outside, ovolo inside, central gabled porch
with rendering removed to expose timber in gable, small light with chamfered
frame and iron diamond stanchion above each bench, 2-panel door with raised
mouldings, reverse with strap hinges and studs, 2 attic dormers, each with
3-light casement. Interior: 2 ground floor rooms have rebated and stopped
ovolo mouldings to main beams; north room has a wide fireplace with wooden
lintel with stopped ovolo moulding, spit brackets above bread oven in pointed
recess to left, kettle bracket to right, arched cupboard to right. South room
has large bolection surround fireplace with flanking panelled cupboards, left
hand cupboard retaining one splat baluster of vent panel, fireplace wall
panelled. Fine staircase with turned balusters on chequered chip-carved
string, heavy moulded handrail, incised risers and moulded bulkheads; the
stairs are in a tight square and rise to full height of the house, attic flight
has no balusters apart from half balusters carved on the newel posts. Rear
wing contained dairy and pantry, extended early C18 by the addition of it storey
block containing room with cheese loft over, approximately one metre deep milk
cellar beneath rear wing. (Sources: Hall, Linda Rural of Houses of North
Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST5960090025

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Legacy System number:
35214
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hall, L, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Monograph Number 6 in The Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720, (1983)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of The White Hart

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