The George Hotel

The George Hotel is an inn that dates from the late 15th century to early 16th century. It features rendered and weatherboarded timber framing, topped with old plain-tile roofs and brick stacks. The building has a five-bay plan with parallel rear wings and stands two storeys high. The two left bays of the five-gabled front project and are double jettied, supported by carved brackets and featuring blind gables. The windows are small-pane horizontal-sliding sashes, and there is a glazed and panelled door with a canopy in the right bay, as well as a similar door in the return wall to the right. The two higher bays to the right have a single jetty and include a large carriage entry with a moulded timber surround, a tripartite sash to the right, and 12-pane sashes on the first floor. The extreme right bay is lower, featuring a two-panel door, 16-pane sashes, and a jetty supported by a heavy diagonally-placed bracket. The left rear wing contains a two-bay hail range and a five-bay weatherboarded range with an open first-floor gallery. The right wing is partly brick and partly timber framed at the first floor, with exposed framing in large panels and heavy tension braces. Inside, there is an open hall with lower king-strut trusses, several open fireplaces with chamfered brick jambs and bressumers, a richly-moulded beam, and an early 18th-century stair with turned balusters.