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George Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Amesbury, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1729 / 51°10'22"N

Longitude: -1.7812 / 1°46'52"W

OS Eastings: 415391

OS Northings: 141538

OS Grid: SU153415

Mapcode National: GBR 503.DHF

Mapcode Global: VHB5C.2SP7

Plus Code: 9C3W56F9+5G

Entry Name: George Hotel

Listing Date: 10 January 1953

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1318491

English Heritage Legacy ID: 321354

ID on this website: 101318491

Location: Amesbury, Wiltshire, SP4

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Amesbury

Built-Up Area: Amesbury

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Amesbury St Mary and St Melor

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Tagged with: Hotel Pub

Description


AMESBURY HIGH STREET SU 1541 (north side)

11/43 George Hotel

10.1.53 II Hotel. c1560 for Philip Power, altered C17, modernised c1768, and extended to west in early C20. Timber framed, rendered to front, brick to rear and mathematical tiles over carriageway. Tiled roofs. Two storeys, cellars and attics. Two main blocks aligned along street, that to right of 4 bays with carriageway through the gabled left bay. To left, 3 bays/C17, right section contains recessed door and irregular fenestration of paired and triple 8- paned sashes and casement windows. Two hipped dormers and large stack backing on to carriageway with five diagonally set shafts. Secondary stack on right gable. Carriageway heightened. Large canted oriel window to first floor and window in gable. Left block has 16-pane sashes to ground floor and paned casement windows to first floor. Three hipped dormers. Stack to left gable and rebuilt stack at junction with right block. Doors to carriageway inset. Right block has long rear wing, probably originally stables, now increased to 2 storeys. Left block has attached C20 hall. At far left end, an added block, c1916, of 2 bays, rendered and roughcast brickwork with tiled roof. Right bay is 3-storey and gabled with framed shop window and door on ground floor, and 12- paned sashes with gauged lintels. Venetian window to second floor under with keyed brick arch. Left bay has entrance, double doors over steps, set in stone frame with cantilevered balcony over with cast iron railings. Keyed oculus to left and sash windows to first floor. Hipped dormer. Roughcast brick stack. Elevation returns on west with close set 12-pane sashes and brick gauged lintels for 7 bays. Stair in second bay, raised above eaves as flush gabled dormer and having an elongated Venetian window on second floor. Three hipped dormers. Interior altered. Both blocks have deeply chamfered cross beams. C17 wainscot at head of stair and turned balustrade around head. (NMR 50088)

Listing NGR: SU1539141537

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