George Hotel
GEORGE HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318491
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GEORGE HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318491
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GEORGE HOTEL, 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15391 41537
Details
AMESBURY HIGH STREET SU 1541 (north side)
11/43 George Hotel
10.1.53 II Hotel. c1560 for Philip Power, altered C17, modernised c1768, and extended to west in early C20. Timber framed, rendered to front, brick to rear and mathematical tiles over carriageway. Tiled roofs. Two storeys, cellars and attics. Two main blocks aligned along street, that to right of 4 bays with carriageway through the gabled left bay. To left, 3 bays/C17, right section contains recessed door and irregular fenestration of paired and triple 8- paned sashes and casement windows. Two hipped dormers and large stack backing on to carriageway with five diagonally set shafts. Secondary stack on right gable. Carriageway heightened. Large canted oriel window to first floor and window in gable. Left block has 16-pane sashes to ground floor and paned casement windows to first floor. Three hipped dormers. Stack to left gable and rebuilt stack at junction with right block. Doors to carriageway inset. Right block has long rear wing, probably originally stables, now increased to 2 storeys. Left block has attached C20 hall. At far left end, an added block, c1916, of 2 bays, rendered and roughcast brickwork with tiled roof. Right bay is 3-storey and gabled with framed shop window and door on ground floor, and 12- paned sashes with gauged lintels. Venetian window to second floor under with keyed brick arch. Left bay has entrance, double doors over steps, set in stone frame with cantilevered balcony over with cast iron railings. Keyed oculus to left and sash windows to first floor. Hipped dormer. Roughcast brick stack. Elevation returns on west with close set 12-pane sashes and brick gauged lintels for 7 bays. Stair in second bay, raised above eaves as flush gabled dormer and having an elongated Venetian window on second floor. Three hipped dormers. Interior altered. Both blocks have deeply chamfered cross beams. C17 wainscot at head of stair and turned balustrade around head. (NMR 50088)
Listing NGR: SU1539141537
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321354
- 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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