Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE SALISBURY SQUARE
817-1/17/197 (East side)
10/02/50 White Hart Inn

GV II

Inn, now public house with manager's flat over. C17, partly
refronted C18, altered internally 1980s after fire.
Timber-framed and plastered, red brick, laid to Flemish bond.
Old tiled roof with hipped corner. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. North wing refaced in brick, 3
flush-set 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds under
rubbed brick flat arches, spaced 2:1, to ground and first
floors. Plat band at first-floor level. North elevation of
south range refaced in brick. First floor with 3 flush-set
12-pane sash windows, spaced 2:1, and first-floor plat band.
Ground floor has early C20 glazed entrance screen at right,
panelled artificial stone stallriser, projecting pilaster at
right flanking fascia panel beneath sill level of first-floor
windows. To right, single flush-set 12-pane sash, far right
corner splayed at ground-floor level, with moulded corbelled
brickwork with ogee profile supporting jettied first-floor
corner of west elevation.
First floor has exposed C17 thin studwork with primary
bracing, plastered and colourwashed panels between; flush-set
12-pane sash to right, roll moulded first-floor bressumer.
Recessed 3 bay ground floor, with timber Tuscan Doric columns
on plinths forming an arcade, plastered between, with 2
flush-set 12-pane sash windows and twin leaf C20 entrance
doors at right. To roof 5 C20 gable casement dormers, all
replaced after fire. Large flat roofed extension at rear is
not of special interest.
INTERIOR: much opened out and altered on ground floor, exposed
beam with mortices indicates the earlier presence of a
set-back stud front wall behind the originally open arcade.
Close string newel stair with column on vase balusters and
moulded handrail. First floor and attics retain few visible
features of historic interest, and roof structure renewed
after fire.
(East Herts Archaeological Society Newsletter: The White Hart
Inn: Hertford: 1949-1954).

Listing NGR: TL3269812624

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• White Hart Inn official website
• Wikidata Q26558987

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