The Royal George Hotel
THE ROYAL GEORGE HOTEL, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388389
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal George Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL GEORGE HOTEL, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388389
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal George Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL GEORGE HOTEL, KING 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 ROYAL GEORGE HOTEL, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knutsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75188 78695
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 KING STREET 792-1/3/70 (West side) 18/01/49 The Royal George Hotel (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Nos.72 AND 74 Royal George Hotel)
GV II
Coaching inn and hotel. Late C18 with later additions and alterations, possibly incorporating structural remains of an earlier building. Brick with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: deep plan comprising 3 parallel ranges, the rear range forming the assembly-rooms lit by 4 tall round-arched windows. Circular wig-room in wing expressed externally as shallow projecting bow. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4-window range. Main entrance off covered way which runs through the building to the right. Segmental archway with stuccoed voussoirs and quoins to covered way, with paired 4-pane sash windows above with stuccoed keys to flat-arched gauged brick heads. Late C19 2-storeyed canted bay window to the left of the entry, and projecting full-height 2-window range beyond. INTERIOR: assembly room and circular 'wig room' to rear survive substantially unaltered from late C18. Plaster work in assembly room comprising low dado and tall wall panels, with rosette frieze below cornice, and a high frieze over, a repetitive design of garlands and wreaths. Musical emblems in the triglyph frieze above. Plaster medallions to ceiling. Coved recess beneath gallery in end wall, with ornamental plasterwork forming architrave. Pair of fireplaces in long wall, with musical motifs in entablature, and fluted shafts each side. Similar, but less ornate plaster-work in present dining room which has Palladian window in gable end. Late C18 staircase with moulded tread ends, turned spindles and swept and moulded rail.
Listing NGR: SJ7518878695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476400
- 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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