WHITE HART

27 October, 2011 WHITE HART

Tetbury Families

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1838 Map showing location of the White Hart and to the right c1890. Note the ground layout is virtually unchanged.

Maps reproduced with permission of Gloucestershire Archives.

1594	White Hart has occupied the site since at least this date. Robert Hibert was the tenant.
1775	Nightly balls were held after the Tetbury Races, in the White Hart Assembly rooms
1780	Mr Ledgingham paid £4.0.0 land tax ' for ye White Hart inn'
1785	Mr Ledgingham listed in poor rates
1791	In 1791 it was the principal inn in Tetbury, with Thomas Morgan as landlord.
1820	Edward Edwards was in charge and advertising chaises to hire.
1822	Coaches depart from the inn to Bath (Mon Weds Fri at 3.00pm) & Oxford (Tues Thursday Sat at 12noon) Edward Edwards
1823	Richard Constable left the property to wife Sarah in his will. Edward Edwards had a mortgage of £250 on property in 1822
1830	Edward Edwards - Royal Mail Coaches from Cheltenham to Bath leave daily at 9am; Bath to Cheltenham 5pm
1844	Edward Edwards
1849-1852	R.S. Holford had the Inn rebuilt to a design by Lewis Vulliamy, in a 'Jacobean style, with shaped gables with finials, and a ground-floor iron veranda.' A ballroom for the Beaufort Hunt was on the first floor, which later became divided by partitions.
1859	White Hart Commercial Hotel run by Richard Bannister [b1817-65]
1861	On the 1861 census Richard Bannister is listed with wife Elizabeth [1824-] and also David Paish servant 18 boots b Cirencester, GLS; Sarah - bins servant 21 waitress Brokenborough, WIL; Mary Russel servant 16 kitchenmaid Shipton Moyne, GLS; Margaret Vick servant 14 nursemaid Tetbury, GLS
1863	Richard Bannister
1868-1879	Elizabeth Bannister
1876	Inland Revenue Office ran from White Hart, William Alfred Butter officer
1885	Assembly Rooms, White Hart, R Edwards proprietor
1889	White Hart Family & Commercial Hotel & Posting House, Richard Edwards, Market Place
1891	In the Licensing Acts of 1891 it was occupied by Richard Edwards on an annual tenancy with an estimated rent of £60, and rateable value of £48, owned by R.S.Holford; 7 day alehouse license; freehouse.
1897	Richard Edwards, the proprietor was advertising the Assembly Rooms.
1903	By 1903 it was owned and occupied by Thomas Wheeler; 7 day alehouse license, £78 estimated rental and rateable value of £62 7s 6d. Freehouse closing at 11.00pm. It had transferred hands twice in the last 5 years.
1914-19	Thomas Wheeler was running the Assembly Rooms and White Hart Hotel.
1921	The first cinema in Tetbury was set up in the White Hart by Mr Shaw Phillips
1923	Kelly’s directory lists ‘Cinema’ [Warden Shaw-Phillips, proprietor], White Hart Hotel, Market Place; office, Long Street
1924/25	T.E.Rennie was new proprietor, tel. no. 39. The hotel offered ‘leading family and commercial hotel, free house, wines and spirits of the finest quality, garage, A.A.hotel, loose boxes, billiards’
1930	Part of stables to the rear of the White Hart was converted to a cinema.
1931	George Adams, proprietor
1938	George’s Brewery, Bristol owned the property.
1960s	It became known as The Snooty Fox when purchased by Maxwell Joseph
1970s	Sold and became known as White Hart again. In recent years the name has changed again to The Snooty Fox.


	1594 survey of Tetbury


	An illustration c.1700 showing a busy Market Place with the White Hart sign central.

SOURCES:

VCH Gloucestershire Vol 11 available online

Snooty Fox website

Pevsner Guide to Buildings of Gloucestershire Gloucestershire: Cotswolds v. 1: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Take a closer look at Tetbury's Inns and Public Houses, SG Mosdell; published by the author

Licensing Acts 1891 & 1904

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES
D329/T8 Frere, Cholmeley and Co of London, solicitors: Deeds
Title Deeds (mostly trust), bonds and settlements of HOLFORD family,
Date: 1838-1861
Description: With mention of lands in the following parishes and named properties ...TETBURY: Old Hare and Hounds Inn; White Hart Hotel; Elmstree Farm; Bradfield Farm; The Grove Farm; Down Farm...

D892/T82 DEEDS
Tetbury: ...messuage called The White Hart, messuage (formerly called The Bear, later The Turkshead), all at Tetbury;...
Date 1679-1859

GPS/328/40 Cotswold Collotype of Wotton-under-Edge, printers
Photographs of Gloucestershire scenes: Tetbury
Market Place showing Market House, White Hart Inn and Jolly Butchers Inn, with pedestrians and horse and cart
Date c.1890


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