Building record 1185900000 - WHITE HART HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE

Summary

Sixteenth or seventeenth century inn known as The White Hart, remodelled as a hotel in the early nineteenth century and with twentieth century alterations

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1280927: WHITE HART HOTEL (DBC4807)

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Type and Period (2)

  • INN (16th Century to 19th Century - 1500 AD? to 1899 AD)
  • HOTEL (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Grade II. Hotel. Early C19 with older origins, altered C20. Rendered with incised masonry patterns, probably over brick, C20 plain-tile roof, rendered brick end and internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 5-window range. Central double-leaf, panelled part-glazed doors, side-lights and overlight in open porch with Doric pillars outermost, matching pilasters innermost, bearing full entablature, blocking cornice and plinth for life-size statue of reclining stag with a coronet round its neck. 12-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with moulded, rendered surrounds and pulvinated friezes framed by console brackets bearing cornice hood. Those to ground floor have sills on small console brackets either end. 6-pane square sashes to 2nd floor with similar surrounds and sills. Rendered plinth, pilaster strips either end, sill band to 1st floor, storey band to second floor and deep corbelled eaves cornice. Low blocking cornice forming parapet and coped gable ends (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3596 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM. p42.
  • <2>SBC23498 Bibliographic reference: Department of National Heritage (DNH). 1994. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM. p100.

Location

Grid reference SP 69603 33964 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 13 2023 9:48PM

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