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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558309

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)