8, George Street is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1954. Former chapel. 3 related planning applications.
8, George Street
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gutter-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1954
- Type
- Former chapel
- Address
- 8, George Street, City of Plymouth, PL1 4HN
- OS grid reference
- SX 455 544
- Coordinates
- 50.36975, -4.17378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 George Street is a former nonconformist Unitarian chapel built in 1790, which was converted into a public house in 1801. The building is constructed of stone rubble with brick dressings, although it was likely originally covered in stucco. It features bitumen-grouted slate roofs with slightly projecting eaves and a moulded wooden pediment at the front end of the main roof and the porch roof. The chapel has a rectangular aisle-less plan, which probably included galleries originally, and there is a small 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension on the left-hand side.
The two-storey elevations display three windows on the left-hand side and two on the entrance front. The first-floor windows are round with glazing bars and pivot-opening centres. The main pediment has a blind oval that was formerly dated 1801, and there is a spoked glazed lunette on the porch pediment with a plaque dated 1790 beneath it. The ground-floor windows are blocked, with two flanking a wide central doorway in the porch and one visible on the left-hand return. The entrance features 20th-century panelled doors. The interior has been remodelled in the 20th century.
Local climate
8, George Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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