Description

LAUNCESTON

SX3284 BROAD STREET
660-1/4/11 (South East side)
27/02/50 No.15
The White Hart Hotel

GV II

Large public house. C18, incorporating mid C12 doorway
reputedly from Priory of Saint Thomas (qv) but more likely
from Launceston Castle. Painted brick, probably on rubble,
front with mid-floor band above ground floor and shallow
segmental arches; dry Delabole hipped roof with modillion
cornice and brick end stacks; small central roof-light.
Double-depth plan plus wings ranged around a courtyard
infilled in C20. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window front (2nd
floor). Late C19 paired horned 2-pane sashes exept for single
sash to centre of 2nd floor; central doorway with moulded hood
over Norman doorway of volcanic stone with 2 orders of nook
shafts and round-arched frieze of lozenges to outer order; C18
studded door. INTERIOR: features include C18 moulded ceiling
cornice to front right-hand room and entrance hall and c1800
open-well staircase with open string, stick balusters and
ramped mahogany handrail, wreathed over newel, with C20 cap.

Listing NGR: SX3316184532

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585423

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)