The George and Dragon Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The George and Dragon Inn
- WRENN ID
- western-gateway-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1962
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The George and Dragon Inn, High Street, Rowde, SN10 2PN
- OS grid reference
- ST 978 627
- Coordinates
- 51.36348, -2.03265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George and Dragon Inn is an inn that features a late 18th century refronting of a timber-framed building that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It has a roughcast exterior on a high painted brick and rubble stone basement, topped with a half-hipped roof made of Bridgwater tiles, and includes a ridge stack and an east end stack. The building stands two storeys tall with an attic over a full-height basement.
The front facade has small-paned triple casement windows, with a three-window range to the left and a four-panel centre door that is sheltered by a timber hood supported by brackets. There are eight stone steps leading up to the door, accompanied by an iron railing. To the left of the front door, there is a blocked door framed in timber architrave, while to the right, there is a one-window range with similar windows. Cellar doors are located to the right of the steps. An addition from the 20th century can be found at the east end of the building.
At the rear, heavy square framing is exposed, revealing the line of the original roof. Inside, there is a heavy chamfered and stopped spine beam over the through passage. The room to the west of the passage features a heavy spine beam with two bars to the chamfer-stop and a large ashlar moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with a moulded stone shelf. There is a fielded panelled door leading to the staircase, and a possible foot of a cruck beam is visible in the front wall near the partition to the passage. The west end room contains an unusually moulded spine beam with two ovolo mouldings and carved rosette stops.
Local climate
The George and Dragon Inn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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