The White Hart is a fascinating building, its intriguing architecture bearing witness to many and varied stylistic influences in vogue since it was built in the early 17th century. It was originally positioned right next to the Sevenoaks turnpike, and as you’d expect of a coaching inn that has been nourishing and refreshing travellers for over 300 years, you’ll find character and charm at every turn.

The White Hart on Tonbridge Road in Sevenoaks was built high on the Greensand Ridge in the late 16th / early 17th century near to the site of an ancient inn called The Cock.

A ‘hart’ is a male deer or stag, but the white hart took on a mythical quality through its association with Herne the Hunter (pronounced ‘Ern the ‘unter ). Herne worked for Richard II in Windsor forest, but was fatally injured while defending the king against a cornered white stag.