The George Hotel

DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (West side) 5/80 The George Hotel 18/07/63

GV II*

Inn. Late C15/early C16. Rendered and weatherboarded timber framing; old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. 5-bay plan with parallel rear wings. 2 storeys. The 2 left bays of the 5-gabled front project and are double jettied with carved brackets and blind gables; windows are small-pane horizontal-sliding sashes and there is a glazed and panelled door, with canopy, in the right bay and a similar door in the return wall, to right. The 2 higher bays, to right, have a single jetty and contain a large carriage entry with a moulded timber surround, a tripartite sash, to right, and 12-pane sashes at first floor. The bay to extreme right is lower with a 2-panel door, 16-pane sashes and a jetty with a heavy diagonally-placed bracket to extreme right. Left rear wing includes a 2-bay hail range plus a 5-bay weatherboarded range containing an open first-floor gallery. Right wing is partly brick and partly timber framed at first floor. Framing, where exposed, is in large panels with heavy tension braces. Interior: open hall with lower king-strut trusses; several open fireplaces with chamfered brick jambs and bressumers; richly-moulded beam; early-C18 stair with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SU5780294224