Description

SUDBURY CROSS STREET
TL 8641
(west side)
2/10000
Nos 59 and 60,
White Hart House

GV II

House. Latterly a public house. C14-C17, in several phases, the medieval
core comprising an H-plan house. C18 and C19 alterations, principally to
range fronting street. Timber framed, the facade cased in painted brick,
the remainder rendered. Slated roof to Cross Street, the remainder with
old clay plaintiles. 2 storeys and attic. Front range in 3 bays, with
coupled 6x6-paned sash windows in flush frames under cambered brick
arches. In centre an unaltered early C2O public house front with
pilasters supporting pulvinated frieze, panelled stall rises with
single-pane windows above and matching door in 2 leaves. To each side
are identical doorways recessed under semi-circular brick arches, with
6-panel doors. To extreme left and right are further coupled sash
windows, those to left with 2x2 panes. Wrought iron bracket for inn
sign. 2 cross-axial stacks. 2 gabled wings project to rear, one with a
heavy axial stack. Interior: Most of frame concealed. Cl4 rear wing to
right has plain crown-post roof with thick 2-way bracing and a
face-pegged splayed scarf joint to the collar purlin. Former service
wing to left in 3 bays, the narrow rear bay for a chimney: one original
knee brace to ceiling beam on ground floor, first floor cupboard with
arched head; original crown-post roof lost apart from one rafter truss,
apparently in situ. Hall has mid C16 moulded cross-beams and joists, one
narrow bay inserted Cl9 in matching style when room extended to left.
Roof over hall reconstructed circa Cl81 re-using old rafters, some
sooted.

Listing NGR: TL8679441022

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26653557

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)