Remains of the Old George Inn

This commercial storage building incorporates the remains of a medieval building and gateway, dating from the 15th or early 16th century, and was significantly altered around 1929 when the first floor was rebuilt and a second floor added. The building is rectangular, running north to south, and is located to the rear of the former Debenhams department store, which was constructed in 1938 and extended in 1955.

The ground floor is built of coursed rubble stone, representing the surviving remains of the Old George Inn, which rises to a height of up to 4 metres in some areas. The first and second floors are of red brick laid in English bond, with coursed rubble stone used for quoins and window jambs. The pitched roof is covered with plain tiles and dates from around 1929.

Originally, the east and west elevations featured pointed-arch openings for a central carriageway, but these were removed and replaced with flat-arched reinforced concrete beams around 1955. The west opening is now enclosed by a roller door. A camber-arched door opening is visible on the west elevation, to Mayes Yard, positioned where an earlier door or window was located. The first and second floors each have seven bays of flat-arched metal-framed casement windows. On the east elevation, there is a single window to the second floor and two windows to the first floor, along with fire escape doors and shared metal stairs giving access to the loading bay. A corrugated-sheet roof extends eastwards over the loading bay at ground floor level.

Internally, the north wall of the former carriageway retains exposed rubble masonry and signs of a blocked segmental-arched doorway with a chamfered surround near the west end. Three flat-arched windows were inserted above the blocked doorway around 1929. A flat concrete ceiling covers the former carriageway, and the south wall was rebuilt in brick and painted in the 20th century. A storeroom to the south retains exposed rubble masonry walls, also covered by a flat concrete ceiling. A winder stair within the building attached to the north-east corner provides access to the upper floors. The upper floors have a corridor along the east side and former storage rooms, work rooms, rest rooms, and lavatories along the west side, none of which retain historic fixtures.