The George and Dragon Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Public house. 9 related planning applications.
The George and Dragon Public House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-hall-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The George and Dragon Public House, the Street, Ightham, TN15 9HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 595 567
- Coordinates
- 51.28724, 0.28641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George and Dragon Public House is a public house originally built in the 16th century, with a stable block on the right that was rebuilt in 1880 after a fire. The building has been significantly altered over time and may have originally been a hall-house. The ground floor is underbuilt in painted brick, featuring a moulded bressumer above. The first floor has close-studded timber-framing with plaster infilling. The roof is plain tiled and has an off-centre brick stack. The structure is two storeys tall and has an irregular shape, with a three-window front featuring 19th-century casements that are positioned close to the eaves on the first floor. The entrance is located to the left of the right-hand ground floor window and has a 19th-century boarded door. Inside, there are some chamfered ceiling joists on the ground floor, and a fireplace with spandrels that are carved with the arms of the Earl of Stafford and the see of Canterbury. The range to the right, rebuilt after the 1880 fire, is made of painted brick with painted imitation timber-framing on the first floor. It has a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the south, with one ridge stack off-centre to the left and one right-end stack. This section is also two storeys tall, featuring a three-window arrangement on the first floor and one window to the left on the ground floor, with large wooden casements. There are two entrances with boarded doors located in the centre and to the left.
Local climate
The George and Dragon Public House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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