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Picture source: Hania Franek

The White Hart was situated on High Street. The premises date from the 16th century and are grade-II* listed.

Source: Chris Eades

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Free House * Beamish Black £2.10 (21.vi.1999) There is Hook Norton Best on offer, but it was off. Actually we didn't expect this to function as a pub, but if you go in, turn right at the check-in desk and go into the Stables bar, you will find a small pub. The same doesn't, as far as I can see, apply to the Crown and Cushion Leisure Centre along the road. There was a man watching a Billy Crystal film that had been mounted on the  wainscoting. He pulled pints. Excellent old carved pews for sitting on, and beermats. (21.vi.1999)

Listed building details:

C16 timber frame structure, refronted in 1725 as dated on rainwater heads, ground floor remodelled and the whole refaced in the C20. Ashlar in local Baroque style with a gabled slate roof and 3 stone stacks. Three storeys, 6 bays, the centre 2 bays recessed. Moulded cornice. Rusticated quoins to top floor sill level, moulded and eared architraves with projecting keystones, brackets below and aprons above top floor windows. Sash windows throughout without glazing bars. A 3-light window replaces the central carriage arch and the inner window opening to the left-hand bay has been lengthened for a doorway. Fine painted hotel sign between the 2 central first floor windows. Inside, despite extensive remodelling, C16 features survive. The NW room on the first floor has a complete oak panelled scheme with fluted frieze and some carved ornamental panels. This room also has a wide stone fireplace with obtuse angled head, hollow spandrels and stop moulded jambs. There are 2 similar fireplaces on the ground floor. To the rear a stone tiled, rubble stone range with jettied upper storey now stuccoed, masking timber framing. The White Hart is an impressive interpretation by local masons of a Baroque style derived from Gibbs' Ditchley Park.

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