NHER 12109 (Building record) - 1 White Hart Street

Losted Building. Kingdom Hall, 1 White Hart Street.
House, converted to house and shop, to religious use as meeting house 1980s. Early C18. Early C19 gault brick façade, otherwise red brick. Pantiled roof, black-glazed to front. 2 storeys in 2 bays. Late C20 six-panelled door to right and a late C20 6/6 sash left in bricked-in shop display window. Two C19 sashes to first floor with 6/6 glazing bars.
Gauged skewback arches. Gabled roof, hipped to façade. Minstergate front with platband at first floor and two 6/6 sashes in exposed boxes. Interior not inspected.
Information from (S1).
H. Hamilton (NLA), 08 August 2008.

September 1972. Building Survey.
It is not clear whether one or two houses are involved; one is assumed here, though it is just possible tht the southern wing may have had an independent existence.
A 17th century origin is postulated for the whole block. All beams are cased, except the western beam in the south range which is stop-chamfered. The south wall is red brick with platband, possibly dating to about 1700 which is the date of the panelling in the north room.
March 1971. Listed, Grade II.
The building is of two storeys, attics having been retained in the southern range which is a little higher. The earliest walls visible are in narrow red brick. In the early 19th century the whole building was refronted (on the east) in white brick, two storeys with attics, with a parapetted eaves with moulded cornice. All roofs have pantiles and all windows are sashes. At about the same time as the refronting, the north wall of the west end of the south range (an 18th century extension in red brick?) was similarly rebuilt in white brick; a staircase built in the resultant angle; and a two-storey range with a hipped roof added at the north end. The stair and north wing are connected by a single storey lean-to passage of early 19th century date. The north wing is in fact near the middle of the 19th century in date, while the rest of the work belongs to about the first quarter of the 20th century.
Information from (S2).
H. Hamilton (NLA), 08 August 2008.

This building was intended for demolition but apparently reprieved.
N.B. this site was formerly confused with NHER 15638.

There was a public air raid shelter in the basement.
E. Rose (NLA), 02 February 2006.