The George Hotel
THE GEORGE HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177513
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The George Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GEORGE HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177513
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The George Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GEORGE HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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:
- THE GEORGE HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Cary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 64116 32366
Details
CASTLE CARY CP MARKET PLACE (East side) ST6432 6/83 The George Hotel 24.3.61 GV II Inn. C17 or earlier origins, with some reused materials; now mostly C18 and later Cary stone and lias rubble; thatched roof with plain gables to main block, coped gable to southern half; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys; 4 bays main block, 3-bay extension, set back slightly, still C18. Sash windows, mostly 12-pane under slim concrete lintols, but to bays 2 and 4 main block are flat-roofed single storey bay windows of 4+16+4 panes, and to bay 6 a 2-storey angled bay with 12+20+12 pane sash windows, under lead flat roof: to lower bay 3 a 6-panelled door in painted ashlar surround with Doric pilasters, simple entablature and pediment hood; above this door a projecting hanging sign on a C19 wrot iron triple- braced bracket with scrollwork decoration; some windows have brick reveals; one quoin stone to main block has C12 chevron moulding. Considerable extensions to rear, includiong a long earlier C19 wing with 4 large 16-pane sash windows at first floor level, and a former segmental arched throughway below, now blocked. Interior much altered, but several crossbeams survive.
Listing NGR: ST6411632366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262016
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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