The White Hart, Market Place

Claims to be the oldest inn in the Isle of Axholme. The building is listed and is thought to date back to the 16th or 17th century, though was remodelled in the late 17th or early 18th century. Timbers exposed during building work in 1980 suggested that the present building incorporates 2 adjoining timber-framed houses.

Listed Building Designation

Full description
SE 7612-7712 CROWLE HIGH STREET (east side)
17/48 No 96 (The White Hart Inn)
GV II
Public house. C16-C17, remodelled in later C17-early C18; renovations of 1985. Timber frame, encased and rebuilt in brick, rough rendered. Pantile roof. L-shaped on plan, with 3-room front (now opened out to 2 rooms), wing to rear left and outshut in angle. 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Plinth. 6-fielded-panel door flanked by tripartite sashes with glazing bars beneath segmental arches; 16-pane sash to right. 16-pane first-floor sashes. Deep eaves. Roof hipped to left. Rebuilt axial and end stacks. Interior of front range contains original spine beam to ground floor, pair of wall posts with rail at first-floor level, and arch-braces to wall plate with stop-splayed scarf, exposed beam to first floor. Not fully investigated. Timbers exposed during building work in 1980 suggested that the present building incorporates 2 adjoining timber-framed houses.
Listing NGR: SE7733012784

Owners

1872 Abraham Mason Burtonshaw, Crowle (Register of licences)
???? Mary Ann & Harry Laughton Burtonshaw (Register of licences)
???? Thomas Dymond, Burntwood Hall, Barnsley (Register of licences)
1892 John (Thomas) Dymond, Burntwood Hall, Barnsley (Register of licences)
1903 John Dymond, Burntwood Hall,Barnsley
???? The New trent Brewery Company Ltd, Crowle Wharf

Licensees – as listed in the Register of Licences granted in the Western Division Hundred of Manley in the parts of Lindsey in the County of Lincoln [1872 to circa 1940]

Trade Directories etc.

Manor of Crowle: Admission
Reference Name MISC DON 201/13
Jonathan Dent of Winterton, esq., on the surrender of Wm Atkinson, late of Winterton and then of Crowle, innkeeper, and his wife Mary.
The tenement known as The White Hart in Crowle.
Consideration: £560.
Date: 10 May 1811

1819 William Atkinson (Notice of Auction (not of the White Hart), Stamford Mercury – 07 May 1819)
1828 William Atkinson (Pigot & Co Directory of Lincolnshire, 1828)
1835 George Brown (Pigot & Co Directory of Lincolnshire, 1835)
1841 George Cattle – Innkeeper (1841 Census)

George Cattle Funeral
Stamford Mercury
Friday 12th January 1844

1851 Ann Cattle – Innkeeper (1851 Census)
1856 Ann Castle (Crowle Directory, 1856)
1861 Ann Cattle – Innkeeper (1861 Census)
1861 Ann Cattle (Mrs) (Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire, 1861)
1868 Ann Cattle (Mrs) (Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire, 1868)

To BREWERS, INNKEEPERS, and Others,
CROWLE, Lincolnshire.
To BE SOLD BY AUCTION (unless previously disposed of by Private Contract), at the White Hart Inn, at Crowle, in the county of Lincoln, on Monday, the 13th day of September, 1869, at Two for Three o’clock precisely in the Afternoon, subject to conditions then to be produced, all that
Old-established and Well-frequented INN,
Known by the sign of the ” White Hart,” situate at Crowle aforesaid, with the Stables, Outbuildings, Yards, and Garden thereto adjoining and belonging, now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Peart.
The Property is Copyhold of the Manor of Crowle.
The whole or any part of the purchase money can be had on approved security at a moderate rate of interest. The Tenant will show the Property, and further information may be obtained at my Office. J. W. DANBY, Lincoln, 16th August, 1869. Solicitor.

White Hart Auction
Lincolnshire Chronicle
Friday 27th August 1869

1871 Thomas Peart – Innkeeper (1871 Census)
1872 Thomas Peart (White’s History, Gazetteer & Directory of Lincolnshire, 1872)
1881 William Hill – Innkeeper {Bus Driver & Proprietor} (1881 Census)
1885 William Hill (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire, 1885)
1889 William Hill (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire, 1889)
1891 William Hill – Publican and Cab Proprietor (1891 Census)
1896 William Hill ( Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1901 William Hill – Hotel Proprietor and Cabmaster (1901 Census)
1905 Mary Hill (Mrs)(Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1906 Mary Hill, of the White Hart, Crowle, was fined £1 and costs 4/6, for selling to Pc Woodcock a pint of gin, which proved to be 14 degrees below the legal limit, on November 22nd. Mr A W Cundall, of the firm Burtonshaw and Cundall, Crowle, appeared for defendant, and stated that there was no wilful intention, and as this was the first offence during her 25 years in the trade, he asked for a dismissal. (Epworth Bells Jan 5th 1907)
1909 Mary Hill (Mrs) (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1911 Mary Hill – Hotel Keeper & Posting (1911 Census)
1913 Mary Hill (Mrs) & Sons (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1919 John Hill (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1932 John Hill (Hull Daily Mail – 21/10/32)
1966 Garnet (Avril Turner Project)