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The White Hart was situated on Brook Street. This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use.

Listed building details:

House. Early C15, altered in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall range facing N, with stack to rear of left bay, and 2-bay parlour/solar crosswing to left. 3-bay service crosswing to right, with external stack on right return wall. Single-storey extension to left, single-storey lean-to extension to right. 2 storeys. Left crosswing jettied to front, with-one reproduction bracket and splayed bay with C20 half-glazed double doors and casements below. 2 C20 casements, one of which is in the underbuilt jetty of the right crosswing. First floor, 3 C20 casements. Early C19 half-glazed door, with C19 painted sign over 'Licensed retailer of wines, spirits and beer. Dealer in tobacco' and shallow hood on scrolled brackets. Exposed curved tension bracing on right return wall, trenched outside studding. The hall has been raised approx. 1.5 metres in the cl7 to align with the roofs of the crosswings. The interior has a doorway from hall to parlour with 3-centred arched head, exposed studding and display bracing at both ends of hall, and a late C16 inserted floor, with chamfered beams and chamfered joists of horizontal section. The left crosswing has a complete crownpost roof, with cross-quadrate crownpost and 4-way rising braces, the side braces lap-jointed to the rafters below the collar. The right crosswing has a complete crownpost roof of different form, the 2 crownposts chamfered to an octagonal section with step stops, each with 2 rising braces to the collar-purlin and 2 down-braces to the tiebeam, the latter springing from the crownpost well above the rising braces. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates of crosswings. RCHM 8.

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