George Hotel
GEORGE HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281918
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GEORGE HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281918
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GEORGE HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
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, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crewkerne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44134 09776
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4409 MARKET SQUARE 876-1/7/103 (South side) 06/09/74 George Hotel
GV II
Hotel. Mid C18, with mid C19 rear left wing. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar with hipped slate roof and brick stacks to side walls. PLAN: double-depth plan to street-facing block, irregular U-shape to the whole. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Rusticated quoins; the central bay is stepped slightly forward, and the moulded cornice of the open pediment to the top of it continues to the sides below the parapet wall; the bases to the sides of the pediment are supported by paired consoles. All the windows are C20 horned plate-glass sashes in moulded architraves; the central one to the first-floor has a segmental pediment. Below it is an elliptical, hollow-moulded, rusticated arch with scrolled copper and brass nameplates to each side. This is the carriage entrance, an archway approx 15m long with 3 beams supporting the upper floors; that nearest the front is massive. The rear courtyard has extensive buildings to each side. Those to the right, the further end of which cants inward, are now shops; Ham Hill stone ashlar with moulded architraves and keystones to 8/8-pane sashes, and a continuous cill course to the first-floor; 2 doors with raised-and-fielded panels remain. The wing to the left is similar, but with reconstructed stone architraves; the first-floor is an assembly room, rendered, with large 12/12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: an C18 square stone fireplace with a moulded outer edge and beaded arris has a late C19 wooden mantelpiece attached to the front of the lintel. Roof structure is obscured except for the lower part of an arch brace at the angle of the junction of the main building and the rear right wing. The assembly room to the first floor of the rear left wing retains some of its mid C19 character; a high coved ceiling with vented ceiling roses, cornice, dado rail, and 2 elliptical arches to the left-hand wall. HISTORY: there are records of the continuous existence of a hotel on this site from 1541. The Crewkerne Assembly was held at The George in the C18. (Victoria County History: Somerset: P.9).
Listing NGR: ST4412809774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 9
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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