The George and Dragon Inn and Attached Railings to Front and the Yorkshire Bank is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Inn. 4 related planning applications.

The George and Dragon Inn and Attached Railings to Front and the Yorkshire Bank

WRENN ID
rooted-chancel-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1985
Type
Inn
Address
The George and Dragon Inn and Attached Railings to Front and the Yorkshire Bank, 19, Market Place, Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6AA
OS grid reference
SE 696 865
Coordinates
54.26979, -0.9319
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The George and Dragon Inn, now functioning as both an inn and a bank, dates from the mid-18th century but has earlier origins. The building has been subdivided and extended to the rear, with a 20th-century bank front added to the right. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone, which has been whitewashed at the front, and features a pantile roof with brick stacks. The original layout was a three-cell through-passage plan with a rear staircase outshut and a carriage arch to the left.

The inn is two storeys high with a semi-basement and has a two-window front for the inn on the left, while the bank front is on the right. Notable architectural features include chamfered quoins and stone steps leading to a central six-panel door, which is topped by a rectangular divided fanlight under a flat stone hood supported by wrought-iron brackets. The building has small-paned horizontal sliding sash windows throughout, with stone sills and double-keyed lintels, as well as raised bands at the basement and first floor levels and a moulded eaves cornice. The carriage entrance on the left has an elliptical arch made of voussoirs and quoined jambs with imposts, leading to tall plank double doors and a 16-pane sash window above.

Inside, both bars of the inn feature surviving fireplaces. The fireplace in the right bar has a quarter-round moulded bressumer above a later chimneypiece with a timber lintel on corbelled-out jambs, while the left bar has a plain stone surround with rounded corners. There is also a corner cupboard with a glazed, round-headed door framed by an entablature and cornice on reeded pilasters in the left bar, and a hearth cupboard with a square-panelled door in the right bar.

In front of the inn, there are late 18th-century iron railings, approximately one metre high, set on a chamfered stone base and ramping up to the doorway, adorned with urn finials and spiral tips. The Yorkshire Bank front to the right is not considered of special interest.

Local climate

The George and Dragon Inn and Attached Railings to Front and the Yorkshire Bank receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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