Description

BUXTON

SK0573NE GEORGE STREET 616-1/3/35 The George Public House and George Mansions

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Public house and hotel. c1770 with mid C19 addition and C20 restoration. Ashlar and dressed stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate hipped roofs with stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys to main range, 3 and 2 storeys to additions. Original south-west front has 4 storey, 6 windows range to right. Off-centre later doorway with 4-panel double doors with overlight in deeply moulded segment headed surround. To left a single sash and to right 4 similar sashes. Above 6 sashes to each floor, those to the third floor smaller, topped by 3 dormer windows. To left 3 storey wing with full-height canted bay window with plain sashes and 2 pairs of sashes beyond. North-west front 3 storey, 7-window front with 2 storey single window wings. First and second-floor sill bands. Central segment headed doorway in moulded ashlar surround with flanking columns and keystone, plus double glazed doors with side lights and overlight. Either side 3 2/2 sashes, above 7 segment headed similar sashes, above again 7 similar sashes. Wings have single segment headed tripartite sashes with keystones and above single 2/2 sashes. Rear: regular 4-window range; first bay and right return rebuilt at all levels. Left return: 3-window range. Projecting stacks. Single storey outbuildings. INTERIOR: not inspected. Alterations to the road routes led to the decline of The George, and subsequent rise of The Grove. (Leach John: The Book Of Buxton: Leicester: 1987-: 122).

Listing NGR: SK0573273564

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