White Horse Inn
WHITE HORSE INN, THE OLD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351953
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- White Horse Inn
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HORSE INN, THE OLD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351953
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- White Horse Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HORSE INN, THE OLD STREET
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:
- WHITE HORSE INN, THE OLD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09840 38183
Details
TM 03 NE CAPEL ST MARY THE OLD STREET 3/56 White Horse Inn
II
Public House. C15 or earlier with later alterations and additions. C18 and C19 facade. Timber framed and plastered. Red plain tiled roofs. Large red brick. chimney stack to left return, large, off centre left, rear of ridge chimney stack to central range. 2 storeys. The central hall range has a roof of 2 levels with the chimney stack shared by both levels, right and left crosswings with a further C18/C19 range to left, hipped to left. C19 barge boards, brackets and batten decoration to gables. 3:2:1 first floor, 2:1:1 ground floor, C19 vertically sliding sash windows with horns, that to centre of ground floor an angled bay with hipped roof. Left and right C20 doors with top lights. Internal features include heavy storey post to rear of central hall. Fine inserted early C16 ceiling, the beams and wall plates moulded and carved with foliage, carved stops. Heavy stop chamfered bridging joists to crosswings. One arched brace remains to the crosswing tie beams, but the sawn off braces are still visible. The hall roof has been raised to road face and the rear is mainly covered except for the base of a heavy rafter supported by the moulded storey post. C18/C19 fireplace, reeded surround with patera and cast iron grate. The large, blocked chimney stack retains a fragment of a moulded mantel beam.
Listing NGR: TM0984038183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278830
- 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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