George Hotel

GEORGE HOTEL, 1 AND 3, STATION STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269579
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:
George Hotel
Statutory Address:
GEORGE HOTEL, 1 AND 3, STATION STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269579
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:
George Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
GEORGE HOTEL, 1 AND 3, STATION 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GEORGE HOTEL, 1 AND 3, STATION STREET

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:
Swaffham
National Grid Reference:
TF8200609096

Details

TF8209
809-1/6/83
17/01/73

SWAFFHAM
STATION STREET
(East side)
Nos.1 AND 3
George Hotel

GV
II

Hotel. Early C18, main range to street added c1860, extensions
1979 and 1988-89. Red brick, the front rendered and
whitewashed. Slate and pantiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: C19 facade faces south-west. 2 storeys and dormer
attic; irregular 5-window range. Rusticated ground floor.
Double-leaf half-glazed door right of centre with plain
doorcase rising to pediment. Fenestration of 2/2 horned sashes
of various sizes, those to ground floor with rendered and
painted gauged arches, to first floor with raised surrounds
and hoods. 5 through-eaves dormers with open segmental
pediments with shell motifs; 2/2 horned sashes. Gabled roof.
Internal gable-end stacks north and south.
To left is C18 block with facade rebuilt in C20 in
stretcher-bond red brick: 2 storeys, 5-window range. 6/6
sashes, those to upper floor without horns. Gabled roof.
Internal gable-end stack to north. Rear of this block of early
C18 brick and one 2-light cross-casement.
INTERIOR: C19 cast-iron staircase.

Listing NGR: TF8200609096

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
460645
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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