Description

ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE (South side)

9/184 The White Hart Inn
(formerly listed as The White
Hart Hotel)

17.4.59

GV II

Inn. Apparently a late C18 refront of a much earlier building. Local lias stone cut and roughly squared, painted ashlar
dressings; clay pantiled roof hipped at east end, stepped coped gable to west, behind parapet; stone and brick chimney
stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Rendered plinth, plain end pilasters, moulded coping to plain parapet: 16-pane sash
windows in plain openings under timber lintols to first floor; below, double plain sash window in Regency style
shopfront surround bay 1; 9 panel door with Regency flanking timber pilasters and plain timber hood on brackets,
carrying timber model of a white hart, bay 2; triple plain sash window under timber lintol spanning bays 3 and 4; and
wide boarded door under timber lintol bay 5; C20 hanging sign at first floor level. Interior not seen, but VCH reports
an open timber roof of late medieval date on the upper floor of what was a gable cross wing. Earlier known as 'The Bear
Inn'. (VCR, Volum\e III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4903928493

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The White Hart Inn official website
• Wikidata Q26594102

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings