The George Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. Hotel. 12 related planning applications.
The George Hotel
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-solder-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The George Hotel, High Street, Rye, TN31 7JN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 921 203
- Coordinates
- 50.951, 0.73355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George Hotel incorporates several originally separate buildings dating from the 15th century to the early 19th century. The section fronting Lion Street comprises two timber-framed cottages. The southern cottage dates to the 15th century, while the northern one is from around 1600. Both are two storeys high, with two windows each. The upper floors have been reconstructed and raised, likely in the 18th century, though the jettying remains visible. They have tiled roofs; the upper storeys are tile-hung, and the lower storeys have been underbuilt with brick, now stuccoed. Upper storeys feature 19th-century sash windows, while the lower storeys have bay windows, with the northern cottage retaining original glazing bars. The southern cottage features a central doorway and a passage extending through its southern end to the rear of the hotel. According to the Victoria County History, the lower storey and gateway of the southern cottage contain 15th-century ceiling beams.
The main hotel block facing High Street has been underbuilt and features an 18th-century facade. It stands three storeys and an attic high. The exterior is painted brick with a wooden dentil eaves cornice. The tiled roof has four dormers. The windows have segmental heads; the centre window on the first floor is topped with a heavy pediment, which is protected by a porch with Doric columns and an iron railing.
The interior boasts open timbered ceilings, fireplaces, and early 17th-century panelling. The western half of the High Street facade and the former Assembly Rooms, now used as a dining room, were constructed in 1818 from painted brick. They feature two large, three-light bow windows on the first floor and a later mansard roof with three dormers. An entrance to the Stable Yard, now converted into a garage, is located below the westernmost first-floor window. The Assembly Rooms contain a plastered ceiling and a musicians' gallery.
Numbers 92 to 97 (consecutive) and 99 to 104A (consecutive) form a group.
Local climate
The George Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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