The George Inn

The George Inn is probably a 16th-century public house, with 17th, 19th, and 20th-century additions and alterations. The original structure has a close-studded timber frame with wattle and daub infill, now faced with brickwork in Flemish bond and painted. A 17th-century wing is clad in brick in English bond. The building has plain tile roofs and corniced brick stacks. The inn is two storeys with an attic, comprising two bays, with a slightly set-back, single-storey 19th-century bay to the left. A gabled 17th-century wing extends to the rear left, with single-storey, gabled 20th-century wings to the rear right and extreme rear left, and further 20th-century rear additions. The windows are wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars. Double-sided brick steps lead to the central board door, which is within a segmental-arched reveal, flanked by canted bay windows, all beneath a bracketed pent tile canopy. The first floor is slightly jettied with two three-light windows flanking the pub sign. A central ridge stack is present. The added bay to the right features a two-light segmental-arched window, dentilled eaves, and a tall stack to the right side. At the rear, the left bay displays an exposed wall post on the right and a two-light first-floor window. There are two small first-floor windows to the wing. The right return has a bracketed window and two windows below a tile pentice. Exposed timber framing is visible above the mid-rail, showing posts and struts with collared raking and a queen strut truss. Internally, the 3-bay timber frame includes well-moulded timbers. On the ground floor, the two right bays form a single cell with a ceiling quartered by large scantling triple ovolo-moulded beams, the mid rail at the right end similarly moulded. The left bay has a chamfered spine beam. The rear wing has a double ovolo and fillet moulded spine beam, the moulding running out at one end. The first floor shows jowelled wall-posts, intermediate posts and rails and a wall plate. Originally, the two left bays formed one cell, with a chamfered spine beam featuring stepped cyma stops at the left end and a moulded pendant at the right end. A probable 17th-century winder stair leads to the attic, which has close-studded partition walls, large scantling clasped purlins, old pegged halved rafters, and arched wind braces.