George And Dragon Public House

The George and Dragon Public House, located at 83-87 Castle Street, dates back to the early 16th century and was possibly originally one house. It is a two-storey building with an attic and is timber framed. The first floor overhangs slightly on a moulded bressumer and the exterior is plastered and stuccoed. The building features gables for both the George and Dragon and No 87, topped with an old tiled roof. There are 19th-century bargeboards on shaped brackets at the gable of No 87.

The windows are irregularly arranged, with two attic casements and four first-floor windows that include casements and sashes, some from the 18th century with glazing bars. The ground floor of No 83 retains the frame of an early 19th-century shop front, which has thin flanking pilasters and a moulded cornice with an added fascia board. The George and Dragon's ground floor features, from left to right, a panelled and glazed door with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by narrow sash windows within a thin pilaster frame. There is a canted bay window with two fixed lights and a central sash light with glazing bars, and a passage entrance to the right with a moulded oak frame, a four-centred arched head, and moulded spandrels. No 87 has a late 19th-century shop front.

In the adjoining passage leading to Avon View, the north wall of No 87 has exposed timber framing, including a blocked ogee-headed door and window frames. There is an early 19th-century two-storey red brick wing with flush-framed sash windows and glazing bars that connects No 87 with the former No 1 Avon View, which is now part of the same premises. This section is likely a 17th-century, two-storey timber-framed cottage with brick infilling, featuring two casements and a hood over a plain door. Internally, there is a cambered tie beam in the east wall. The rear of No 85 has tile-hung gables. The roof structure of Nos 83, 85, and 87 includes intermediate trussed collars, a tie beam, inclined braces, clasped purlins, and part of a windbrace.

Nos 77 to 87 (odd), No 2 Avon View, and Nos 91 to 95 (odd) form a group.