Built in the 1980s, the entrance to the Sainsbury's Centre stands on the site of numbers 102 to 106 Guildford Street and White Hart Yard. From at least the 1660s until its closure in 1788 the White Hart Inn occupied part of the site, with stagecoaches to London operating from here.
The Yard was later home to the town's original Methodist chapel from the late 17th century until the 1860s when a new church was built in London Street (since demolished).
From 1840 to 1966 number 104, part of the White Hart buildings, was owned by successive members of the Cartwright family who ran a watch and clock makers, and jewellers. Henry Wale Cartwright, the founder of the firm, came from Leicestershire and there is a splendid example of his work in an elaborate clock in Chertsey Museum, produced for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Mr F.H. Cartwright, the last member of the family to have the business, continued to live at No.104 until his death in 1973.
