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
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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