The White Hart Hotel
THE WHITE HART HOTEL, BOCKING END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338243
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, BOCKING END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338243
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, BOCKING END
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, BOCKING END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75702 23235
Details
BOCKING END 1. 885 (South East Side ) BOCKING The White Hart Hotel TL 7523 1/1 25.10.51. II GV
2. A C17 timber-framed and plastered building, probably built on an L-shaped plan but with many C18 and later alterations and additions. The original part is the block at the north end with a west front effectively closing the vista along Rayne Street. An C18 gault brick wing, now painted, extends east with a front to Coggeshall Road and a farther late C18 or early C19 white gault brick wing extends at the east end. 2 storeys and cellars. The west front now has sham timber-framing on the exterior. 4 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in flush cased frames with moulded architraves. (The 1st storey windows have glazing bars in the upper sashes only.) The window ranges on either side of a central entrance way are 3-light bays rising through 2 storeys. The centre part, between the bays rises to a modillioned pediment with a late C19 or early C20 tiled inn sign. Originally an elliptical headed carriageway opened into a courtyard at the rear, now it has a recessed C20 doorway within the archway. The C18 wing on the south side has 4 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars in plain reveals. The wing at the east end has 5 window range, with a higher storey heights (this contains the dining room), double-hung sashes with glazing bars, the 1st storey windows have stucco architraves, alternate windows (3) have cornices on console brackets. The ground storey windows have semi-circular heads and plain reveals. A stucco band runs between the storeys and there is a brick plinth. Roofs slate. The interior of the main block has exposed timber- framing and ceiling beams. RCHM(56).
The White Hart Hotel and No 2 form a group with Nos 2 to 8 (even) Rayne Road and Nos 1, 3, 9 and 11 Bank Street, Braintree.
Listing NGR: TL7570223235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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