The Former George Inn

The Former George Inn is a historically significant building that served as a coaching inn until around 1837. It likely dates from the 15th or 16th century, with alterations made in the early 17th century and again in the 18th century. Currently, it functions as shops and offices. The lower parts of the building are constructed of ashlar stone, while the upper parts are timber-framed, with a central section made of freestone.

The façade is divided into three sections, featuring a central coachway and long extensions at the rear. The left section has a slate roof, while the other parts are topped with Cotswold stone roofs. The building has two storeys and attics, with three gables visible from the front. The left section, which includes Nos 110 and 112, is roughcast and has a gable above a wide angled bay with a glazing bar sash window in the attic and three more on the first floor. It features a pent roof over a projecting ground floor made of ashlar, with 20th-century openings except for a three-light mullion window in the cellar.

The central section, which is an early 17th-century remodelling, boasts a tall gable with a moulded verge and carved finials on the kneelers and saddlestone. It has a three-light edge-hollow-chamfer mullion window with a drip in the attic, and a moulded window surround with a cornice on the first floor, now featuring a pair of glazing-bar sash windows. The wide segmental moulded stone archway has impost strings and a high plinth, although the inner orders appear to have been cut down.

The right section has a jettied first-floor gable with exposed timber-framing and a 20th-century restored bargeboard decorated with a quatrefoil. It contains three 18th-century glazing-bar sash windows on the first floor, two mid-19th-century windows on the ground floor, and a half-glazed door to the left. A high cobbled alleyway runs alongside, featuring a high pointed archway likely dating from around 1300, which is blocked, and a Tudor archway to the right in front of another similar archway from the same period, which has been partly altered for stairs.

The rear of the building is picturesque, with irregular wings and two gables, as well as a lean-to with irregular windows, including a central wooden cross-mullion window. Inside, the rear room of the north wing on the ground floor features a fireplace with quatrefoil decoration and a ventilated cupboard door with splat balusters.