White Hart Inn, Hawes
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The White Hart Inn is a hotel in Hawes, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.
The inn claims 16th-century origins,[1] but the current building is a principally 18th-century coaching inn.[2] By the 1820s, it was one of two coaching inns in the town, with carriers to Askrigg, Halifax, Kendal and Richmond.[3] It continues to operate as a hotel, with two dining rooms and a bar.[4] It has been grade II listed since 1952.[2]
The hotel is built of stone with chamfered rusticated quoins and a stone slate roof. It has three storeys and six bays. In the second bay is a doorway that has a 17th-century lintel with decorative moulding, The fourth bay contains a doorway with a moulded surround, paterae, an inscribed frieze and a cornice. The windows are sashes, and at the rear is a round-arched staircase window. Inside is the original 18th-century staircase.[2][5]
