Old George Inn

The Old George Inn is a house, now an inn, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the late 18th or early 19th century. Later 20th-century internal alterations have also occurred. The walls are rendered over a cob and stone rubble core, and the roof is thatched. It features a lateral stack and an end stack.

The original layout, around 1600, comprised a central-entrance plan with two rooms and external stacks to the rear of each. A single-roomed addition was built in the late 18th or early 19th century, likely replacing an earlier addition, with a front entrance and an external end stack. Later 20th-century alterations included removing internal partitions flanking the entrance hall/passage and truncating the left-hand rear stack to accommodate a staircase behind the fireplace. The original location of the staircase is unknown, but it may have risen from the front door. The front wall may have been rebuilt in stone around 1800, as evidenced by the stone jambs to the ground-floor windows.

The front of the building is asymmetrical, with four windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor; the windows are small-paned 2-light wooden casements with stone sills. The symmetrical front of the original left-hand range features a round-arched recessed doorway with a 20th-century half-glazed door and an 18th-century blind radial fanlight. To the left of the right-hand window, another round-arched recessed doorway has a 19th-century plank door with strap hinges, a chamfered wooden frame, and a blind tympanum.

Inside, a ground-floor room of the original section has plain joists spanning from front to back and 16th-century fireplaces with stone jambs and chamfered wooden lintels. A fireplace in the right-hand ground-floor room has a likely reused 17th-century chamfered wooden lintel with stepped stops. The roof is of 16th- or 17th-century construction, with two trusses consisting of straight principals with pegged halved apices and pegged halved lap-jointed collars. It originally had trenched purlins, which were replaced in the 20th century. The end walls of the original section are full-height cob. A nailed-collar truss is above the right-hand addition. Historically, Poplar Row was known as Poplar Terrace.