The George and Dragon
THE GEORGE AND DRAGON, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383990
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The George and Dragon
- Statutory Address:
- THE GEORGE AND DRAGON, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383990
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The George and Dragon
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GEORGE AND DRAGON, MAIN 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:
- THE GEORGE AND DRAGON, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70521 86978
Details
DENT
SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town
162-1/25/196 (South side)
14/06/84 The George and Dragon
GV II
Hotel. Rebuilt in mid C19. Watershot coursed sandstone rubble
with freestone dressings, hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan
on north-south axis at junction of two branches of Main
Street, splayed at the corner.
3 storeys, 1:3 windows including the splayed corner, which has
a large square-headed doorway up 2 steps, with a chamfered
surround and a painted signboard over it, a 30-pane sash at
1st floor and a 16-pane sash at 2nd floor. The 3-window west
front has rectangular 24-pane sashes at ground- and 1st-floor
levels, square 16-pane sashes at 2nd floor. The 1-window north
end has matching fenestration.
INTERIOR: altered. (Now internally integrated with former
cottage to north, which is 2 low storeys and has a blocked
doorway in the centre and 2 altered windows on each floor;
and, being contiguous with Edmonson's and of the same
proportions, is included for group value only.)
Listing NGR: SD7052386980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484422
- 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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