The White Hart Hotel
THE WHITE HART HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388903
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388903
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, HIGH 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:
- THE WHITE HART HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Boston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 32702 44023
Details
BOSTON
TF3244SE HIGH STREET
716-1/7/71 (North side)
14/02/75 The White Hart Hotel
GV II
Hotel. Mid C18, altered and extended early C19, with further
mid C19 alterations. The wing at right-angles to the river was
added after 1807 and the construction of the new town bridge
(qv). Red brick, stucco, slate roofs. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: main front of 3 storeys plus attics, 7 bays with
quoins, heavy moulded and dentilled cornice, parapet with
pierced ovals. Off-centre elliptical carriage archway with
keystone, plain pilasters and entablature. To left a small
shop window with moulded surround, cornice and ramped base. To
right 2 plain sashes with pedimented moulded surrounds and
ramped bases and a recessed doorway.
To 1st and 2nd floor 7 plain sashes with moulded surrounds,
the upper ones with tabbed sills. To the attic 4 modern dormer
windows. The taller added wing is 3-storey, 3-bay in
quasi-Jacobean style with balustraded parapet and dentilled
cornice. Dentilled entablature to ground floor and deep band
between 1st and 2nd floor with roundel and acanthus ornament.
The bays to each floor are marked by pilasters, fluted
Corinthian to ground floor and Doric with marked entasis
above. To ground floor a modern entrance to left and 2 plain
sashes to right. To 1st floor, 3 tall full height divided
sashes. To 2nd floor 3 semi-circular-headed sashes. All
windows have moulded surround, those to the top floor are
decorated with roundels.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the original White Hart was demolished early C19 for
the New Bridge Street, the present building was previously the
"Unicorn".
Listing NGR: TF3270244023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486364
- 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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