Description

TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH HIGH STREET
(West Side)

6/156 The Old White Horse

GV II

House, formerly an inn built in 1905 for the Earl of Ellesmere
by C.F.A. Voysey. Free style design. Roughcast render to
buttressed brick walls with limestone dressings; flared hipped
plain tile roof and attic roofs. Slender iron brackets to
gutters. Two tall symmetrical ridge stacks. One storey and
attic, L-plan. Rear wing, extending as loggia links stables to
south-west forming courtyard. Main facade to north-east of four
'bays'; central 'bays' with facade gable and hipped dormer
window to left hand. Entrance originally through recessed open
porch with braced wooden posts, recently infilled by small-paned
glazed doors and fixed windows. Two attic windows, and three
ground floor windows, casements of six-five- and four-leaded
lights with plain limestone mullions and architraves. Wall and
double gated courtyard entrance to north-east with opposing
arched entrance with flared hipped roof. Interior details
largely unaltered include staircase, panelling, inglenook
hearths and rounded arches to openings.
VCH, Vol.VI, p.172.
Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.461.
A. Service, Edwardian Architecture (see Voysey), 1977.

Listing NGR: TL6400558897

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616690

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)