This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE (South side)
9/184 The White Hart Inn (formerly listed as The White Hart Hotel)
17.4.59
GV II
Inn. Apparently a late C18 refront of a much earlier building. Local lias stone cut and roughly squared, painted ashlar dressings; clay pantiled roof hipped at east end, stepped coped gable to west, behind parapet; stone and brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Rendered plinth, plain end pilasters, moulded coping to plain parapet: 16-pane sash windows in plain openings under timber lintols to first floor; below, double plain sash window in Regency style shopfront surround bay 1; 9 panel door with Regency flanking timber pilasters and plain timber hood on brackets, carrying timber model of a white hart, bay 2; triple plain sash window under timber lintol spanning bays 3 and 4; and wide boarded door under timber lintol bay 5; C20 hanging sign at first floor level. Interior not seen, but VCH reports an open timber roof of late medieval date on the upper floor of what was a gable cross wing. Earlier known as 'The Bear Inn'. (VCR, Volum\e III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4903928493
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0853 IOE Records taken by Michael Green; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Michael Green. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Green, Michael
Rights Holder: Green, Michael
Ashlar, Clay, Lias, Pantile, Medieval Cross Wing House, Tudor Monument (By Form), Elizabethan Hall House, Stuart House, Jacobean Domestic, Georgian Dwelling, Inn, Commercial, Residential Building, Inn Sign, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Street Furniture
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