George Hotel Amesbury, England

Listed Building Data

George Hotel has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1318491
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
10 January 1953
Name
GEORGE HOTEL
Location
GEORGE HOTEL, HIGH STREET
Parish
Amesbury
District
Wiltshire
Grid Reference
SU 15391 41537
Easting
415391.1550
Northing
141537.1660

Listed Building Description

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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