Description

MODBURY CHURCH STREET SX 6451-6551 7/119 (south side) No 1 (White Hart Hotel 26.1.67 and the Assembly Rooms

GV II

Hotel incorporating former assembly rooms, at street junction. Early C19. Smooth rendered, slate roofs. Two wide ranges with low-pitched gables to street, returns down Poundwell Street to wide opening to internal courtyard. Hotel, left, is 2 storeys, 3 windows; at ground floor tripartite sashes with central 16-pane flanked by diamond-set bars and at first floor three 16-pane sashes, all to plain reveals. Central 6-panel flush door with diamond-pane overlight in pilaster surround with Greek key ornament to frieze, small flat hood, panelled reveals. Front contained in plain pilasters to small plinth, and full-width pediment closed by plat-band. Ridge stacks set back centrally, and smaller eaves stack to left. To Poundwell Street are four 16-pane sashes at first floor over three the same, and centre one over cellar access; to left a broad elliptical opening with keystone containing two heavy plank doors. Assembly rooms, to right in Church Street, 2 storeys, 3 windows similar to White Hart, but three 4-pane over two 16-pane flanking central 6-panel flush door to plain overlight and simple pilaster doorcase. Back of this unit has a 9-pane sash in a slate-hung wall. An important visual element at this street crossing, little altered externally. In the pavement in front of this building is set a large granite lintel in basket-handle form with central ogee curve, probably brought from the demolished Champernowne House (see also Steps and archway at Old Traine East).

Listing NGR: SX6583151606

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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