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White Horse Hotel

A Grade II* Listed Building in Wincanton, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.0565 / 51°3'23"N

Longitude: -2.4103 / 2°24'36"W

OS Eastings: 371341

OS Northings: 128650

OS Grid: ST713286

Mapcode National: GBR MZ.FP57

Mapcode Global: FRA 56VB.6TP

Plus Code: 9C3V3H4Q+HV

Entry Name: White Horse Hotel

Listing Date: 24 March 1961

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1274102

English Heritage Legacy ID: 416222

ID on this website: 101274102

Location: Wincanton, Somerset, BA9

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: Wincanton

Built-Up Area: Wincanton

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


ST7128 WINCANTON CP HIGH STREET (South side)

8/153 No 4
(White Horse Hotel)

24.3.61

GV II*

Inn. Dated 1733. By Nathaniel Ireson. Local stone cut and squared with painted ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof
behind parapet, simple gables; brick end chimney stacks. 3-storey, 3 bays. In a free baroque Georgian. Plinth, cill
course, cornice above first floor level, rusticated quoins up to cornice with Egyptian type pilasters above supporting
band course in lieu of parapet; 12-pane sash windows those to outer ground floor bays paired, with rusticated mullions
and jambs, triple keystones through entablature and segmental pediments over, and under these windows blocked 2-light
cellar windows; between bays entrance, up 3 steps with deeply recessed doors, framed by Gibbsian surround with
quintruple keystone, centre incised G.D 1733 (George Deane, proprietor at that date); protruding through entablature
into open pediment; first floor windows double in outer bays, simple surrounds with triple keystones, all windows with
thick glazing bars; similar surround to second floor windows, which are 2-light small pane casements: double hanging
sign with elaborate wrot ironwork ar first floor level between hays 2 and 3. Much extended and altered to rear.
Interior not seen. Inn first recorded 1655, but completely rebuilt in 1733. (Sweetman,G: History of Wincanton,
c1904.)


Listing NGR: ST7134128650

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