Two storey, brick structure with clay tiled hipped roof. Single storey, half hipped addition to rear. Externally rendered and painted white. C19th century date confirmed but probably earlier, with some modern additions.
Largely rectangular plan form, lying on a north-east / south west axis, running back from the road. Georgian style windows with two bay windows to front. Internal chimney stack and central fireplace, remains of timber framing along entrance passageway
Outbuildings dating to at least the mid C19th survive to the rear and are included in listing.
The White Hart Inn is listed in the Post Office directory of 1847, and a building (of similar shape) on this site is shown on the 1761 Roque Map and the 1775 ‘Map of the Manor of Hampstead Marshall’. The White Hart Inn is therefore of possible C18th date and may even be earlier, considering its proximity to a 16th century timber framed cottage and evidence of embedded timbers in the main structure.
Although internal alterations have been made over a period of time it is likely that C18th or earlier elements have survived. For instance, several timbers on the ground floor, supporting the roof around the bar area of the pub, are likely to be structures from the original building and have the potential to date from the C16th or C17th.
Evidence, such as: a single direct access from the Kintbury Road; a fireplace which would have serviced what is probably a ‘tap room’ immediately accessed on the left of the front door; and the long narrow corridor (represented by the positioning of the old timbers) which led from the front door to another larger room, suggests that the building has always been an Inn.
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