White Hart Bar and Dining Room

Call the White Hart Bar on: 01803 847111

The White Hart Dining Room is situated within the fourteenth century kitchen of the hall range. Roofless and with crumbling walls when the estate was purchased in 1925, the former kitchen was restored by William Weir between 1926-37.

During the following 50 years its chief use was as the canteen for the staff of The Dartington Hall Trust and Dartington College of Arts and from the early 1990s the dining room has been available for public use. The two large tapestries were a commission from the weaver Bobbie Cox in the 1980s.

The space now occupied by the White Hart Bar originally formed part of the fourteenth century service rooms for the kitchen and Great Hall. In the 1930s the rooms were converted into a bar with a recreation room upstairs (now the Tiltyard Dining Room) and known as the White Hart Club, run as a private gathering place for all staff and students on the estate. In the early 1990s the White Hart was refurbished and opened for public use.

Situated in the medieval courtyard, Dartington Hall, these buildings are listed as part of the main Hall listing, and adjoin the Great Hall. Grade I listing (click here to find out more about what listing means).

The White Hart Bar and Dining Room are open for drinks and meals:
11am – 11pm Monday to Saturday,
12noon – 10:30pm (open from 11am for morning coffee) on Sundays.

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