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. 10 related planning applications.
The Royal George Hotel
- WRENN ID
- under-loggia-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Royal George Hotel, King Street, Knutsford, WA16 6GR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 751 786
- Coordinates
- 53.30463, -2.37379
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
Local climate
The Royal George Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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