Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13942
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/06/1977
Date of Amendment
31/08/2000
Name of Property
The White Hart PH
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Old St. Mellons
Town
Cardiff
Locality
St Mellons
Easting
322930
Northing
181340
Street Side
W
Location
Obliquely facing the main throughfare and opposite the Bluebell Inn PH.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Lower wing is possibly C17. Uphill wing is later, possibly mid C19. The 4 inns close to each other near the main thoroughfare benefited from the fact that the Welsh Sunday Closing Act did not apply to Monmouthshire prior to 1921 so were much visited by Cardiff residents on that day, the boundary between Monmouthshire and Glamorgan being the nearby Rhymney River.
Exterior
Inn with long street frontage. Of scored rendered stone with Welsh slate roof, painted brick end and ridge stacks; plinth. 2 storeys. To left (SW) a wing with 3 -window range of 6/6 pane horned sashes with moulded surrounds; 2 canted bays with pitched lead roofs and multipane casement windows to ground floor. Central semi-circular headed doorway with decorative overlight depicting a white hart, boarded door and similar moulded surround. Stone stepped mounting block at uphill end. Sharing the same roofline but with decorative ridge tiles is the right wing, slightly set back and with slightly higher eaves; a 3- window range of 8/8 pane horned sashes with similar moulded surrounds; on ground floor doorway to left with slated hood, replaced door; casement windows of 2 and 3 lights with moulded surrounds and leaded upper lights. Stepped down at end right is a single bay with similar windows to each floor.
Interior
Interior of older (left) wing has flag floor, a wide open fireplace with heavy chamfered hearth beam; some massive chamfered and stopped cross beams; a number of the wide-spaced and slender joists are also chamfered and stopped.
Reason for designation
Listed as a traditional village inn on an important thoroughfare and in a prominent position; group value with the Bluebell Inn, Kingdom Hall and the War Memorial.
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