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Date of photo: 2016	Picture © Jo Turner
The White Horse was situated on Church Street. This grade-II listed building is inscribed as a 'House of Industry'  and was a re-built workhouse that burned down in 1813 when an elderly lady took a lit candle upstairs to bed. It was then sold in 1837 and became the White Horse Inn that, although popular with villagers after Sunday services in the church opposite, closed in 1991 and is now used as a private residence. Often listed as a beer house it makes it difficult to trace and I can’t find evidence of it in 1841 or 1856 but otherwise my directories list; 1861 William Parker; 1868 William Bradley; 1872 no White Horse but William Bradley is listed as 'beerhouse'; 1885 Mrs Alice Haw; 1889 William Henry Martin; 1896 no White Horse but William Henry Martin is listed as beer retailer and plumber; 1901 the only inn listed in Church Street is the Six Bells (no list of beer retailers given); 1905 Thomas Purdy; 1909 Charles Skeith; 1913-1919 David Brown.
Source: Steve Turner
Listed building details:
Inn. 1813, altered C20. Colourwashed red brick, pantiled roof with raised brick coped gables, 2 gable stacks. L-plan. 2 storey, 3 bay front with dentillated eaves course. Central C20 glazed door flanked by single 3 light plain sliding sashes with segmental brick heads. To first floor are 2 two light plain sashes to eaves. An off-centre ashlar tablet records the rebuilding of the inn after a fire in 1813.
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