Ye Olde White Harte

Great in winter with its fires and cosy atmosphere and in summer the courtyard is lovely.
Civil war armour. Stained glass and lead. Draught Guiness.
The plotting room is actually where the Civil War began. It was a merchants house..the owner of the arsenal. The decision was made that they wanted to keep the arsenal and not let the King have it. (loss of revenue) so they decided to Close the Beverley Gate (in the town centre) again the King and thus cavaliers and thus it began.
If you don't know where this pub is you can miss it. Down an alley the city and modern buildings were built around it.

Guy Fawkes didnt plot to attack Parliament - he was roped in as a mercenary, but that was the century after the 'Hull Plot' took place in Ye Olde White Harte - which basically was that the King should be shut out of Hull and not allowed access to the stockpile of weapons in Hull's Citadel.


I have to agree, its a great pub and the first place we take visitors in Hull. Yanks love it and always buy the video!


Paul

A wonderful lttle pub, hidden away down a side street.
One of the few places that serves Theakstons on tap, and with a wonderful atmosphere.
A must visit pub.

This is the full version of my Yorkshire Post 'Pub of the Week' review which was published May 2011.


Not many pubs can lay claim to being the location of the start of the English Civil War, that honour belongs to Hull's Ye Olde White Harte alone. It was in an upstairs room, in 1642, that prominent Hull citizens decided to refuse Charles I entry to the city, an edict that lead directly to the outbreak of the civil war. It's this history that draws visitors to the pub, the plotting room is still open and relatively unchanged and the décor of the rest of the pub hasn't altered much in the past few hundred years, with even the scars of a severe 1809 fire - still visible on the wooden walls and rafters - only adding to the august atmosphere.


Aside from absorbing historical surroundings the pub has more practical attractions. The bar keeps seven hand pulled ales, two of them regularly rotated guest beers and the food is dependable and inexpensive. There's an impressively hearty steak and ale pie and the jumbo haddock and chips will surely satisfy even the hungriest trencherman. Sadly food serving times are limited to a couple of hours over lunch so it can sometimes be tricky to secure a seat amongst the solicitors and clerks drawn from the nearby courts. There's always a decent specials board and the traditional deserts vary with the seasons but unfortunately some of the food can have the feel of being pre-prepared and frozen. Alfresco eating in the summer provides the benefit of allowing you to properly enjoy the pub's wonderful façade which is the equal of any building in Shakespeare's Stratford.


Being tucked away down a couple of dark alleys in the middle of a town centre drinking circuit means that come nightfall there's an occasionally odd mix of regulars looking for a quiet pint and gangs of youngsters seeking a few minutes respite from the nearby Weatherspoons. This can sometimes leave an evening session feeling uncomfortably unpredictable but there are two huge inglenook fireplaces into which chairs comfortably fit, so if things get too hectic you can always take your pint, hid away inside and imagine you're plotting to overthrow the crown.

A genuine old English pub with a good sized beer garden which gets really busy in the summer. The Olde white hart has reported spooky happenings and has a skull sitting behind the bar supposedly found on site.
The bar area is cosy with open fires in 2 rooms. Not much seating but as the bar area is quite small there isn't room for much more. Also has a new restaurant upstairs and although I haven't been the menu's look very nice. The Olde white hart was also part of the Derek Acorah ghost towns series. They always serve you pretty quickly.

The story of Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, residing at the pub is nothing more than fiction. Wenceless Hollar was sent to Hull to create a map of the town and it's locations of Government and Defence. Where the White Hart stood, between Silver-street and Bowlalley-lane was an empty plot. Hotham was put in charge, by Parliament, to defend the magazine, that was kept in Suffolk Palace just around the corner, and the story of the Plot taking part at White Hart did not surface in any historical record until the mid 1800's. The magazine was not removed from Suffolk Palace to the Citadel until after the two sieges of Hull. By this time Hotham had been hung, and so was his son.


That said, the pub is a lovely drinking establishment, especially on warm summer evenings.

A great pub in the City Centre. This Historic pub is renowned for the upstairs plotting room where Guy Fawkes plotted his attack on parliment. This unmodernised, unspoilt pub is a must when visiting the city offering a great selection of Cask ales in a traditional as it used to be establishment. If the day comes of the demise of the British Pub this will be in the museum you can be assured.

loved the atmosphere of this pub, it seeps from the walls,
my son had permission to do some filming upstairs in the plotting room, so being in here in the dark with just a cpl of candles, the shadows come alive,,
my son and his friend was doing a uni project about a ghost called freda, an experience i wouldn't have missed,


if you want to see a bit of the filming its on youtube
minerva project, i will warn you very strange lol xmx

A nice little pub worth visiting. In a summer if you can, sit in the beer garden, it is lovely.
Not as cosy as it was years ago, it is still worth coming to for a pint or two. Bit too much traffic coming through to the restaurant upstairs if you like an undisturbed quiet drink.

Ace pub, always on my list to visit. Haven't eaten here in a long while but the food was always great. I like the fact it doesn't have music on and has a great chilled atmosphere inside and out the beer garden if the weather is good. They lose a star though for the choice of lagers, even one of the barman said they could do more on draught. Kronenbourg is average at best, I would rather see San Miguel on draught and I would be here more often.