The Royal George Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1949. A Late C18 Hotel. 9 related planning applications.

The Royal George Hotel

WRENN ID
under-loggia-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Country
England
Date first listed
18 January 1949
Type
Hotel
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal George Hotel is a late 18th-century coaching inn and hotel, with later additions and alterations, potentially incorporating the structural remains of an earlier building. It is constructed of brick with a Welsh slate roof. The building has a deep plan, comprising three parallel ranges, with the rear range containing assembly rooms lit by four tall, round-arched windows. A circular "wig room" is located in a wing, expressed externally as a shallow projecting bow.

The main facade is three storeys high and has a four-window range. The main entrance is off a covered way that runs through the building to the right, featuring a segmental archway with stuccoed voussoirs and quoins. The windows above are paired four-pane sash windows with stuccoed keys to flat-arched, gauged brick heads. A late 19th-century two-storey canted bay window is situated to the left of the entrance, and a projecting full-height two-window range extends beyond.

The assembly room and circular "wig room" to the rear survive substantially unaltered from the late 18th century. The assembly room’s plasterwork features a low dado, tall wall panels, a rosette frieze below the cornice, and a high frieze decorated with repetitive garlands and wreaths. Musical emblems appear in the triglyph frieze above, and there are plaster medallions to the ceiling. A coved recess is located beneath a gallery in the end wall, ornamented with plasterwork forming an architrave. The room also contains a pair of fireplaces with musical motifs in the entablature and fluted shafts on either side. A present dining room contains less ornate plasterwork and has a Palladian window in the gable end. A late 18th-century staircase is present, with moulded tread ends, turned spindles, a swept and moulded rail.

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