Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NE NEW ROAD 930-1/6/168 (North West side) The Little George Hotel

GV II

Hotel on a peninsular site. 1904. Limestone ashlar, rock-faced rusticated plinth, render and timber-framed gable ends, crested plain tile roof with decorative courses, ashlar stacks to outer walls and ridge of rear block. T-shaped plan, with curved entrance facade to the north-east. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; virtually symmetrical window range. 3 dormers to the rear and one to each side have 3-light casement windows under a simple pediment. A string course encircles the building below a plain eaves band which is coved on the extended semicircular entrance block. A similar string course to the ground floor is raised to form hoodmoulds over the windows. Ogee-moulded 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows, most of which have 12-pane sashes to the tops and elaborate coloured leaded glazing to the lower sashes except on the north side which were in the private apartment. Some single-light windows. The entrance bay has a semi-conical roof flanked by dormers each of which is flanked by chimney stacks. Side entrances below the dormers; that to the south-east has a rectangular porch with a moulded and stopped architrave over coloured leaded lights to half-glazed double doors; that to the north-west has beaded panels to 3-panel double doors under a lean-to plain-tiled porch on brackets. The wall to the 1st floor of the central entrance bay is flat with 4 single-light windows, forming a balcony fronted by 4 Jacobean-style moulded square timber columns and rectangular shapes to the arcading and railing (the railing is now covered by a fascia over the main entrance). The main double doors, outer and inner, are half-glazed and elaborate. The slightly projecting gable ends of the rear range have carved bargeboards and timber-framing to the attic. To rear, the bar of the T-plan, is similar but simpler with 3 ridge stacks. INTERIOR: the ground floor retains the cornice, a square moulded newel to boarded-in balusters to an open-string open-well staircase, some 6-panel doors with bolection moulding and a fireplace with hand-painted Art Nouveau ornament. The pool room has 2 Art Nouveau fireplaces with ornamented cast-iron hoods. HISTORY: a newspaper article of 1905 describes the opening of the new hotel on August 19th, rebuilt after a fire of 1903, as " a most handsome and commodious commercial hotel with bed and bath". A fine example of its type.

Listing NGR: ST9193173862

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