White Horse Inn (EHER 38325)

No.26 and No.28 High Street is a late 16th century public house, presently a public house, shop and flats. The front range is built of painted brick with a Welsh slate roof, and the rear blocks are timber framed and rendered, with gabled plain tile roofs. The building is three storeys with cellars, and has a three-window range.

September 1971. Grade II listed. No.26 and No.28 High Street is a late 16th century public house, presently a public house, shop and flats. The front range is built of painted brick with a Welsh slate roof, and the rear blocks are timber framed and rendered, with gabled plain tile roofs. The building is three storeys with cellars, and has a three-window range. The building abuts No.24 (EHER 38324) to the west and No.30 (EHER 38326) to the east. The ground floor of No.26 has a canted bay window which is panelling below which provides cellar access. To the right is a carriageway through to the rear yard with pair of boarded doors. The ground floor of No.28 has a 19th century shop window with an early 20th century hardwood shop front of plate glass with cant-sided recess to the door. The rear elevation of the White Horse is rendered with a dogtooth eaves course, and is also over a two-storey contemporary rear range. To the rear of this is a long rendered timber framed range with plain tile roof, and with one bay which has a narrower span roof at the south end. The eaves have a considerable overhang. A 20th century slate-roofed single-storey lean-to conceals part of this flank. This timber-frame range is truncated at north end and now consists of 2 full bays and a smaller bay at south end. The eaves overhang is a curious feature which may relate to the Wealden house type or may have sheltered a gallery. <1> See photos <2>.