Listed Building record MDO14771 - The White Hart Inn, High Street, Yetminster

A public house built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. The west wing was added later, probably in the eighteenth century. The building has walls of rubble stone, partly covered in plaster, and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. Surviving original features of the interior are reported to include a large open fireplace and chamfered ceiling beams.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (15) White Hart Inn, 25 yards E. of (14), has a later S. wing. The S. front has one three and two four-light original windows with labels.’

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Jul 17 2015 10:17AM