A charming old timber-framed building with two downstairs bars and additional rooms upstairs, one featuring bar billiards and darts, others where children are welcome. There is a small patio to the rear and benches at the front. A "must see" for visitors to Hertford, the pub features in CAMRA's Regional Directory of Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest. A pub full of conversation and good beer. Dog friendly. A rare home for bar billiards in Hertfordshire - table upstairs along with darts.
Historic Interest
Former beerhouse until 1970s with one small bar. Mainly 16thC construction
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: II
Probably a seventeenth century building, this was a pub by 1838. Until the late 1970s, it was a single bar enterprise, the original being the left hand one with bare wood flooring and old fireplace and wall panelling; the counter and bar-back are difficult to date but may not be that old. The right hand bar, with a fine fireplace, is an opening-up into the former residential space whilst the incorporation of parts of the upper floor into the public area is quite recent (but very characterful).
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This Pub serves 4 changing beers and 1 regular beer.
White Horse, Hertford
Source: National