St George's Hotel and Attached Rear Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Vicarage, hotel.

St George's Hotel and Attached Rear Wall

WRENN ID
tenth-trefoil-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1993
Type
Vicarage, hotel
Address
St George's Hotel and Attached Rear Wall, St George's Road, Truro
OS grid reference
SW 820 449
Coordinates
50.2644, -5.0597
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St George's Hotel, originally a vicarage, was built in the 1850s and extended in the early 20th century and again in 1989. The building features Killas rubble walls with granite dressings and steep dry Delabole slate roofs. It has axial stone stacks over the original cross wing and additional stacks over the parallel rear roof. The hotel has a U-shaped plan due to the early 20th-century wing added on the right side. The original layout included two front rooms with an entrance hall between them.

Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the hotel is a single storey plus attics and consists of four bays with gabled wings on either side. It has a gabled hood over an arched doorway, with relieving arches above a two-light trefoil-headed window to the left and a three-light trefoil-headed window to the right. There is also a two-light plate-tracery window on the first floor of the left-hand gable, and similar arched gables over the attic dormers, which feature original casements. The early 20th-century wing has a two-window gable end.

Inside, the hotel retains an original straight-flight stair with a trefoil-headed balustrade, a pointed-arched stone doorway at the rear of the passage, and an original pointed-arched serving hatch between the right-hand room and the kitchen. The front rooms have moulded plaster ceiling bands. The first floor was not inspected.

A notable feature is the attached rear wall, which connects at right angles to the back of the hotel and includes a pointed-arched doorway and granite coping with roll moulding. The vicarage was likely designed by Reverend William Haslam, who was a friend of the ecclesiological architect William White. This building reflects the influences of White and other ecclesiological architects like Street, who worked in Cornwall by the early 1850s. The hotel is included for its group value.

Local climate

St George's Hotel and Attached Rear Wall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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