Building record 1227200000 - THE WHITE HORSE, VILLAGE LANE

Grade II. C17, refronted C19. Timber-framed; white-washed brick; restored gable end covered with modern boarding; machine tile roof. String course at first floor level. Two storeys. Modern one-storey addition on right hand. First floor with two 2-light casements set under eaves. Ground floor with central entrance beneath gabled porch on brackets and two 2-light casements with cambered brick relieving arches. All windows with glazing bars (B1).
Historic building recording (level 2) carried out by members of Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society's Historic Buildings Group in summer 2010 concluded that there was no evidence for a timber frame and that the buildings was built in brick in the late 17th century with subsequent extensions and alterations in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Carpenters' marks on the roof timbers were similar to those at Shell House (built 1681-3). Dendrochronological analysis of the roof timbers failed to identify sufficient tree rings for dating. See report for detail (B2).
Notes:
A Historic Buildings Group survey in 2010 found that
(1) the ‘timber framing’ extends only to the roof (2 bays) and upper flooring; the walls are of brick, without timber-framing except where inserted for decorative purposes.
(2) The single-story southern extension is a conversion from an earlier stable. A two-storey C19 rear extension with 4-light sash windows and a rear brick chimney was added in the 1830s.
(3) An altered C17 fireplace is served by a brick, internal chimney stack on the northern gable end.
(4) The ‘cellar’ is at ground level in a former early C20 garage to the southern end of the building.
A building is recorded on the site in the earliest Hedgerley Poor Rate Book in 1679, though it is not known whether this was an inn at that time. The first reference by the name White Horse occurs in 1753 (source: Wulcho, Stoke Victuallers (1950)). (B3)