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Summary

Coaching inn, late 17th to early 18th century, with late 18th century assembly room addition to left. Interior retains late 17th century features.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1105859: WHITE HART HOTEL

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX59NE/93
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 93366

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COACHING INN (XVII - 1601 AD to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1983, Okehampton, 4 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV342832.

Coaching inn, 17th /18th century. Stuccoed stone with steeply pitched gable-ended roof with new tiles. Overhanging eaves with end brackets over giant corner pilasters. Three storeys and attics. Five bays. Restored sash windows with glazing bars, ground floor in segmental-headed openings. Central doorway with double doors and portico with four granite Tuscan columns supporting a balcony with an iron balustrade. One of the openings on to the balcony has French doors. On the balcony a plinth with a white deer. Three modern flat roof dormers. Rendered chimney stacks at gable-ends. Circa late 18th century assembly room addition to left hand, two storeys, one bay, with hipped roof and rusticated quoins, string course and round-headed sash window with glazing bars on first floor. Interior: circa late 17th century open well staircase through all floors with turned baluster, square newels, moulded hand rail and string with pulvinated frieze.

Kenyon, D. R., 1997, Market Street, Okehampton: Archaeological Assessment, Figure 2 (Report - Assessment). SDV346209.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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