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The White Hart was situated at 21 Shirburn Street. This grade-II listed pub used to hold court sessions from the 15th–19th centuries. It closed in the mid 1980s; the last publican being Mrs Hayward. This was a Simond's Of Reading Brewery pub.

Listed building details:

House. Probably late C17 2 bay house with early C18 addition to left and C18 and Cl9 additions to rear; C20 alterations and additions. Front elevation remodelled late C19. Timber frame and brick, rendered to front elevation. Old tiled roof with lateral stacks and cat-slide roof to rear extension. L-shaped plan. 2 windows to original house, 1 to extension. 2 storeys. Plain entrance to right. Late C19 tripartite sashes, ground floor with cambered heads. Interior has timber framed partition wall to original house with chamfered and stopped spine beams and some framing visible to former outer walls; visible on ground and 1st floor. C18 extension has chamfered spine beam, 2 early C18 6-panel doors with H-hinges, moulded dado and, to 1st floor, wide floorboards.

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