The George Hotel And Shop Adjoining To The Right

PRESTON

SD5429NW CHURCH STREET 941-1/10/75 (South side) Nos.89 AND 90 The George Hotel and shop adjoining to the right

GV II

Public house and attached shop. Mid C19, altered. Brown brick, No.89 (George Hotel) with painted stucco facade, and No.90 painted. Double-depth plan. Three storeys over cellar, 3+2 windows. No.89 is symmetrical, has channelled rustication at ground floor and raised quoins above, and a plain frieze and prominent moulded cornice; central doorway with moulded architrave (lintel inscribed "GEORGE HOTEL 1922") and a bracketed cornice; cellar windows with iron grills, ground floor windows with altered glazing, and sashed windows on the upper floors; and side-wall chimneys in front and behind the ridge. Immediately to the right is a large basket-arched wagon entrance to an entry through No.90, which has voussoirs linked to the rustication of No.89; otherwise, No.90 has a C19 shop front at ground floor, 2 sashed windows on each floor above, a frieze and cornice continued from No.89, and side-wall chimneys. INTERIOR of No.89: mosaic tiled floor to porch lettered "GEORGE HOTEL", and some other early C20 tiling.

Listing NGR: SD5449729583