Description

ST 59 SE
3/112
22.3.79

AUST
LITTLETON UPON SEVERN
The White Hart

II

Inn, formerly house. Late C17 with C20 single storey extension to rear north
east. Rubble, roughcast, pantiled roof with gable stacks, T-plan including
rear wings, symmetrical facade. 2½ storeys, 5 windows, all 3-light casements
with wooden mullions, square on the outside, ovolo inside, central gabled porch
with rendering removed to expose timber in gable, small light with chamfered
frame and iron diamond stanchion above each bench, 2-panel door with raised
mouldings, reverse with strap hinges and studs, 2 attic dormers, each with
3-light casement. Interior: 2 ground floor rooms have rebated and stopped
ovolo mouldings to main beams; north room has a wide fireplace with wooden
lintel with stopped ovolo moulding, spit brackets above bread oven in pointed
recess to left, kettle bracket to right, arched cupboard to right. South room
has large bolection surround fireplace with flanking panelled cupboards, left
hand cupboard retaining one splat baluster of vent panel, fireplace wall
panelled. Fine staircase with turned balusters on chequered chip-carved
string, heavy moulded handrail, incised risers and moulded bulkheads; the
stairs are in a tight square and rise to full height of the house, attic flight
has no balusters apart from half balusters carved on the newel posts. Rear
wing contained dairy and pantry, extended early C18 by the addition of it storey
block containing room with cheese loft over, approximately one metre deep milk
cellar beneath rear wing. (Sources: Hall, Linda Rural of Houses of North
Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST5960090025

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599252

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