George Hotel
GEORGE HOTEL, 2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176153
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GEORGE HOTEL, 2, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176153
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GEORGE HOTEL, 2, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GEORGE HOTEL, 2, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Stortford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48700 21403
Details
1. 5253 HIGH STREET (North Side)
No 2 (George Hotel) (Formerly listed as No 1 (George Hotel) under North Street) TL 4821 SE:3/37 18.10.49
II GV
2. Originally C16 or earlier timberframed, remodelled late C19. Three storeys. Front to High Street pargetted, old red tile roof, 4 gables. Tudor style drip moulds to 1st and second floor casements. Ground floor canted sash bay. Block to North Street stuccoed, steep slate roof. Banded ground floor. Five windows to street, sash with architrave and cornice surrounds. Reeded architrave door surround with modern columned porch. Paired bracketed eaves. Double-hung sash windows on High Street gable end. Courtyard elevation shows C16/17 gables and moulded C19 brick chimneys. Interior has exposed C16 and C17 ceiling beams. (RCHM (1911) 65).
Listing NGR: TL4870021403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160929
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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