White Hart, White Hart Court

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

West out of Bishopsgate, at No, 119, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).


The date 1480 was cut in the stone on the front of the house prior to its demolition (N and Q. 1st S. I. p.410).

Described in 1583 as a capital house or inn in parish of St. Botolph without Bisshoppesgate between the cemetery of the parish church of St. Botolph south, the gate or entry of the late house of the Blessed Mary of Bethlehem north and from the high street east to the garden of Bethlehem and the ditch of "la More "west (Lond. I. p.m. III. p.316).

The inn was pulled down in 1829 for the formation of Liverpool Street, and the Court occupies the site of the old courtyard of the inn. A new inn was erected on what was left of the site of the old inn.

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