The George and Dragon Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The George and Dragon Inn
- WRENN ID
- small-thatch-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The George and Dragon Inn, High Street, West Wycombe, HP14 3AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 829 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64454, -0.80235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George and Dragon Inn, located on the south side of High Street in West Wycombe, dates from around 1720 and features a refronting of an earlier structure. The building is constructed of red brick with a stucco ground floor and has an old tiled hipped roof. It stands three storeys tall and is distinguished by four giant stucco rusticated Doric pilasters, which were formerly Ionic, with bases at the first floor level and plain plinths at the ground floor. The windows are double hung sash types with cambered relieving arches and projecting keyblocks, arranged irregularly, with several dummy windows.
On the ground floor, there are three canted bay windows, one supported by brackets, all topped with cornices; the rightmost bay features an entablature. To the left of the central carriageway is one bay window, with two more to the right. The entrance consists of a four flush panel door with a narrow rectangular fanlight and a cornice hood above. An 18th-century lead sign is displayed. The timber framework is exposed in the carriageway and on the back elevation.
The yard includes an east side stable wing made of flint rubble dressed with colour washed brick, which is a single storey with three windows. The west wing facing the yard has a colour washed brick ground floor and a timber framed colour washed brick nogged first floor, with an old tiled roof that oversails on exposed corbels. Local lore suggests that the gardens are haunted by a "white lady." The George and Dragon Inn is part of a group of buildings that includes adjacent properties and notable structures such as the Swan Public House and the West Wycombe Branch County Library.
Local climate
The George and Dragon Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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