Listed Building record MDO13627 - The White Hart Hotel, Market Cross, Sturminster Newton

Inn with a date stone reading "RWM 1708" but may be earlier. Built of heavily colour-washed brick with stone quoins and a thatched roof hipped to the right.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 279 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘The monuments in this group are situated in or near the Market Place. Unless described otherwise they are two-storied 18th-century houses with rubble walls and tiled roofs; presumably they were built after the fire of 1729 (Hutchins IV, 344). . . . (17) The White Hart Inn has brick walls and a thatched roof. The E. front, with rusticated quoins at either end, is of five bays and has five first-floor casement windows, each of three lights. On the ground floor is an original doorway with a segmental hood on scrolled brackets, and three secondary bow-windows with sashed lights. Near the centre of the upper storey is a stone inscribed ‘P.W.M. 1708’, indicating that the façade survived the fire of 1729. To the S., a carriageway to the inn yard is spanned by a first-floor chamber with a casement window of six lights. Inside, some rooms have beams with shallow chamfers.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1980s, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch six, 1984 (Map). SDO13933.

(ST78621407) The White Hart Hotel [NAT]

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888653 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 3:14PM