NHER 15110 (Building record) - Scole Inn, formerly White Hart Inn

September 1951. Listed, Grade I.
Listing description excerpt:
"1655. A very lavish mid 17th-century inn. Print dated 1745 shows the elaborate sign [now demolished] of 1655 extended across the road in front with footbridge over. Fine red brick building. Two storeys and attic. Five Dutch gables, some rebuilt...Tiled roof with Dutch gable ends…Three projecting wings with Dutch gables [to rear]…Contains many original doorcases, doors, fireplaces and moulded ceiling beams".
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 March 2020.

Brick, large. 1655 according to (S2) but (S3) states that in many ways it is still in 16th century style. English bond, facade in five sections each crowned by Dutch (pedimented shaped) gables, and divided and subdivided by brick pilasters and string courses. Two storeys plus dormers in the gables. Decorative raised brick ovals and some window frames. Three rear projections and in one recessed section wooden pilasters in two orders forming part of a timber framed wall. Square chimney stacks with arched panelling. Interior staircase in 16th century style; legend of a highwayman having ridden up it. Formerly a large figured gallows-sign across the road, dated 1655, see (S2), and a circular bed for postboys [and less affluent guests], now in America.
Grade I.
E. Rose (NAU), 1 August 1979.

In fact the building has always been known as both the Scole Inn and the White Hart. For a detailed description of the sign erected by James Peck in 1655 and removed after 1795 see (S4).
E. Rose (NLA), 24 March 2003.

See newspaper cuttings in file, (S5)-(S11).

Early 19th-century stables to north-west of Scole Inn now recorded separately as NHER 63801.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 March 2020.