THE LITTLE GEORGE HOTEL

THE LITTLE GEORGE HOTEL, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267957
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THE LITTLE GEORGE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE LITTLE GEORGE HOTEL, NEW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267957
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THE LITTLE GEORGE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE LITTLE GEORGE HOTEL, NEW ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE LITTLE GEORGE HOTEL, NEW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chippenham
National Grid Reference:: ST 91931 73862

Details

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

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Legacy System number:: 462389
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.