Description

DORCHESTER HIGH STREET
SU5794 (West side)
5/80 The George Hotel
18/07/63

GV II*

Inn. Late C15/early C16. Rendered and weatherboarded timber framing; old
plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. 5-bay plan with parallel rear wings. 2
storeys. The 2 left bays of the 5-gabled front project and are double jettied
with carved brackets and blind gables; windows are small-pane horizontal-sliding
sashes and there is a glazed and panelled door, with canopy, in the right bay
and a similar door in the return wall, to right. The 2 higher bays, to right,
have a single jetty and contain a large carriage entry with a moulded timber
surround, a tripartite sash, to right, and 12-pane sashes at first floor. The
bay to extreme right is lower with a 2-panel door, 16-pane sashes and a jetty
with a heavy diagonally-placed bracket to extreme right. Left rear wing includes
a 2-bay hail range plus a 5-bay weatherboarded range containing an open
first-floor gallery. Right wing is partly brick and partly timber framed at
first floor. Framing, where exposed, is in large panels with heavy tension
braces. Interior: open hall with lower king-strut trusses; several open
fireplaces with chamfered brick jambs and bressumers; richly-moulded beam;
early-C18 stair with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SU5780294224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The George Hotel official website
• Wikidata Q17549614

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)