George And Dragon Public House

SU 3853 HURSTBOURNE TARRANT THE SQUARE

10/88 George and Dragon P.H. 7.1.52

GV II

An inn from medieval times, then a coaching house, now a public house. The rear has remains of a timber-framed building (C16 or C17) but the main structure is late C18, with some early C19 details. Walls part painted brick and part render (with joint marks), with a tile roof. Symmetrical treatment of the front (north-west) and wings extending to the rear (the north wing abutting Church Street): 2 storeys, 2.1.3 windows (wings of 3 windows). Hipped roof with brick dentil eaves, gabled centrepiece. The plain walls have a plinth. and the centre is flanked by pilasters (of painted brickwork) with a band at eaves level, and another at the top forming a cap which continues as a coping to the gable, which has a flat top (for a feature now missing). Sashes, the outer upper lights being triple, one splayed early C19 bay and a wide late C19 rectangular bay, in the centrepiece a blind arch heads a wide triple sash to the 1st floor. Doors at each side, one ½-glazed the other of 6 panels within an architrave headed by a canopy on carved brackets: the centre (former carriage entrance) has a door with windows at each side, under a canopy of 4 brackets. The north wing has all the former openings (2 Venetian to the ground floor) now filled; beyond is a single-storeyed unit with an entrance to the rear yard, connected to a cottage (part of the premises) of 2 storeys, 2 windows, with walls of painted flint and brick, sash windows, and a central entrance now filled.

Listing NGR: SU3825053142