A seventeenth century farmhouse which first became the Lenton Coffee House and then the White Hart, was expanded into the building we have today by George Wombwell in 1804. One of the outbuildings was used as the privately run debtors prison of the ancient Peverel Court until 1842 when the prison was relocated to Radford Workhouse on St. Peter's Street (Whitworth 2010). Note the stone mounting blocks on the pavement by the Gregory Street door, which perhaps suggests well-to-do patronage in the past.

On the 28th March 2016, the Nottingham Branch of CAMRA nominated the White Hart as an Asset of Community Value. On the 27th September 2016, Nottingham City Council rejected the nomination on the grounds that "The asset fails to meet the test set out in Section 88(1) (a) of the Localism Act, as the actual current use of the building or other land that is not an ancillary use does not further social wellbeing or interests of the local community."

The White Hart has an entry on the Nottingham Local Heritage List as Heritage Asset HA197 (and formerly the Civic Society's Draft Local Heritage List (09 December 2013)).

[Nottingham City Council; Dunkirk & Lenton Ward / Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency]