This pub is not only a grade II listed building, it is also a One Star pub on the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) National Inventory with an interior of special national historic interest, and the description is as follows: "Built c.1870 of three-storeys by Watney’s Brewery of London stock brick with a tiled ground floor. The interior is now open-plan and through an impressive wide arch with brackets spaced regularly along it is an area at the rear on a lower level and with no old fittings. There are two cast iron columns with elaborate capitals painted gold within the servery and some original ceiling decoration remains.

The original bar back fitting remains substantially intact, and has two-sides with five bays on the right including some very old and aged looking mirrors. There is a suspended clock with a carved surround including ‘1874’; the bar counter is original although two small sections on the far right (one served the rear function room) were lost in changes in 2000."

The listing description is as follows: “Public house. Circa 1870, shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey Map. Polychrome brickwork with stuccoed dressings, slate roof concealed by parapet and brick chimneystacks. Corner building of three storeys; five windows to New Cross Road elevation and two to Queens Road, including a tripartite window. Elaborate parapet with curved panel to Queens Road, pedimented panel with brackets to New Cross Road and modillion cornice. Corner full-height pilasters and bands between floors. All windows are sashes with vertical glazing bars and horns. Second floor windows are cambered with keystones and two windows have cast iron flower guards. First floor windows have round-headed arches filled with stuccoed decoration with keystones above, roundels between the windows and cast iron flower guards. Bar front has fascia, end pilasters with double brackets and windows with ventilation grilles above divided by pilasters. Interior retains a bar partition and both bars have original panelled wooden counter.”

On leaving the pub, note (outside the pub) a grade II listed ventilating pipe to former public conveniences with a light on the top. The listing description is as follows: “Ventilating pipe. Installed as part of public conveniences of 1897 by George Jennings, sanitary engineer, for Greenwich District Board of Works on behalf of the Vestry of St Paul's, Deptford. Central ventilating column of Egyptian pattern by Macfarlane's Castings of Glasgow and modelled on a design by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson for six lamp standards outside his Egyptian Halls, these were erected without authority and were demolished in 1871. This is one of only two known examples of the design, the other is in Clifton Rise, New Cross, but is not on its original site. The ventilating pipe served as an extract for foul gases from the lavatories below, which could be burnt off by the gas mantle at the top. The cast-iron ventilation shaft alone is listed for the special interest of its design. Its Egyptian pattern is most unusual, and it is special in its derivation from a model by a leading Scottish architect, Alexander Thomson. The ventilation columns in New Cross are the only works associated with Thomson in England. Source: Gavin Stamp, 'Greek T in London', in The Alexander Thomson Society Newsletter, No. 8, October 1993.”

The WhatPub link is here: WhatPub/White Hart

The Pub Heritage Group link is here: PHG/White Hart

The White Hart featured on the Fragments of the True (New) Cross: Evening Crawl of New Cross and Deptford on 12 April 2017.