George Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. Coaching inn. 7 related planning applications.
George Hotel
- WRENN ID
- tenth-quartz-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- Coaching inn
- Address
- George Hotel, Victoria Place, Axminster, EX13 5DW
- OS grid reference
- SY 297 985
- Coordinates
- 50.78246, -2.99782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George Hotel is an early 18th century coaching inn located on an island site in Axminster. It is a large stone rubble building with a brick front facing Victoria Place. The hotel features a steeply pitched slate hipped roof with a modillion eaves cornice and has a distinctive bend at the floor levels. The structure consists of three storeys and six bays, with sash windows that have glazing bars set in exposed casings.
On the right side (south) of the building, there is a late 18th century assembly room addition, which has a hipped asbestos slate roof. This addition includes a carriageway on the ground floor and a large Venetian window above, framed by pilasters, an entablature, and a keyblock. A similar Venetian window is located at the rear of the building.
The rear of the main building features a range of sash windows, casements, and ground floor bays with sash windows. There is a panelled door leading to Chard Street, which is topped by a rectangular fanlight.
Inside the assembly room, there is a plaster cornice and a frieze decorated with swags. Each end of the room has a Venetian window set in elliptically arched openings. The chimneypiece is adorned with fluted Ionic three-quarter columns and a decorated frieze, and there is a small gallery with a bowed balustrade. In the main range of the hotel, there is an 18th century dog-leg staircase featuring twined balusters.
Local climate
George Hotel receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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