The Former George Inn

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) The former George Inn 7/141 (previously listed as premises 12.9.55 adjoining Barclays Bank on the north)

GV II*

Coaching inn until c.1837. C15 or C16 altered early C17 and in C18, now shops and offices. Lower parts ashlar, upper parts timber-framed, centre freestone. In 3 parts to front, central coachway, long rear extensions. Left hand part slate roofed, the rest Cotswold stone roofs. 2 storeys and attics; 3 gables to front. The left hand part (Nos 110 and 112) roughcast; gable to wide angled bay with a glazing bar sash in attic and 3 on 1st floor, pent roof over projecting ground floor in ashlar with C20 openings apart from the 3-light mullion window to the cellar. The central part is an early C17 remodelling; tall gable with moulded verge and carved finials to kneelers and saddlestone, 3-light edge-hollow-chamfer mullion window with drip to attic; moulded window surround with cornice to 1st floor now with a pair of glazing-bar sashes; wide segmental moulded stone archway with impost strings and high plinth, inner orders appear to have been cut down. The right hand part has jettied 1st floor gable with exposed timber-framing and a (C20 restored) bargeboard with quatrefoil decoration; 3 C18 glazing-bar sash windows on 1st floor, 2 (mid-C19) on ground floor and a half-glazed door to left. High cobbled alleyway; high pointed probably c.1300 archway to left (blocked), Tudor archway to right in front of a similar c.1300 archway (partly cut away for stairs etc). Rear picturesque with irregular wings (q.v. No 1-11 consec. Old George Yard), and 2 gables and a lean-to with irregular windows, the central one with a wooden cross-mullion window. Interior: rear room of North wing on ground floor has a fireplace with quatrefoil decoration and a splat- baluster ventilated cupboard door.

Listing NGR: SP2513012173