The George And Dragon Inn And Attached Railings To Front And The Yorkshire Bank

SE 6886-6986 6/59

KIRKBYMOORSIDE MARKET PLACE (west side) No 17 (The George and Dragon Inn) and attached railings to front, and No 19 (The Yorkshire Bank)

GV II

Inn, now inn and bank. Mid C18 with earlier origins; subdivided and extended to rear later; C20 bank front to right. Hammer-dressed stone, now whitewashed at front; pantile roof; brick stacks. Originally 3-cell through-passage plan with rear staircase outshut; carriage arch to left. 2-storeys with semi-basement. 2-window front to inn to left; bank front to right. Chamfered quoins. Stone steps to centre 6-panel door with rectangular divided fanlight under flat stone hood on wrought-iron brackets. 3-light small-paned horizontal sliding sashes throughout, with stone sills and double keyed lintels. Raised bands at basement and first floor level. Moulded eaves cornice. Carriage entrance to left has elliptical arch of voussoirs and quoined jambs with imposts. Tall plank double doors; 16-pane sash above. End stacks to inn, and single end stack to carriage arch room. Interior: fireplaces survive in both bars of the inn. That to right has a quarter-round moulded bressumer over a later chimneypiece with a timber lintel on corbelled-out jambs. That in left bar has plain stone surround with rounded corners. Corner cupboard with glazed, round-headed door in frame of entablature and cornice on reeded pilasters in left bar. In right bar is a hearth cupboard with a square-panelled door. Late C18 iron railings to front of inn, approximately one metre high on a chamfered stone base, and ramped up to doorway; urn finials and spiral tips. The Yorkshire Bank front to right is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE6966086540