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Picture source: Will Larter
The White Horse was situated at 29 West Street. This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use.
It was originally owned by the adjacent Soulby, Sons & Winch's brewery (Est. 1897) and was allowed to fall into disrepair after the company was taken over by J.W. Green of Luton in 1951 and closed the following year but in 1958 it was taken over and renovated. A former resident states that in 1960 "the White Horse was then a coffee bar". In June 2001 the fire brigade turned out due to flooding in the building. On 17th July 2012 the minutes of the town council meeting report "White Horse Public House is still a cause for concern. It is understood that there are new owners who will hopefully start work on these premises. If not Planning Enforcement will". In September 2013 the White Horse appeared to be up for sale again.
Steve Turner (September 2019)
From: Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer:
Public house, dating from the 17th century, possibly timber framed. It is built in painted brick with a thatched roof. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. The building was originally owned by the adjacent Soulby's brewery and was allowed to fall into disrepair after the company was taken over by Hewitts of Grimsby, but was taken over by new owners and renovated in 1958. The building was the subject of historic building recording, conducted in April 2015 to inform its proposed conversion to housing. The earliest part of the structure comprises the two-storey, three-bay gabled building that fronts on to West Street. This is the part that was thought to be timber framed but is now clad in brick and rendered. The exact date of construction for this initial phase could not be verified, though it is thought to pre-date 1820 at the least, when it appears on the earliest available map evidence. A series of single and two-storey extensions were added to the rear of the building at various points in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the large two-storey part, formerly in use as part of the Soulby and Sons brewery. Most of the interior was renovated and modernised throughout the 20th century, and little evidence of original historic features survives inside.
Listed building details:
Public house. C17 with early C19 alterations. Possibly originally timber frame, now painted brick and render with stucco quoins and dressings, thatched roof with raised brick coped gables and 2 gable stacks. Single storey with attics, 3 bay front, having central boarded door in fluted surround with short hood on scrolled brackets, flanked by single tripartite glazing bar sashes with splayed rusticated stucco lintels with raised key blocks. Over the door is a niche containing the figure of a white horse. To the attic are 2 through eaves dormers with thatched gables and glazing bar sliding sashes and casements.
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Date of photo: 1960s	Click above photo to expand	Picture source: Stuart