The George Inn

The George Inn is an inn dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. The building features a ground floor and rear made of roughly coursed rubble Doulting stone, with a 16th-century timber-framed upper front that was added after a fire. It has a stone slate roof with arcaded chimney crowns on the end gables and rubble stone chimney stacks along the ridge and off the front and rear eaves.

The three-storey ground floor includes two square stone mullioned bays with cusped lights and two-stage angle buttresses. There is a central porch with a moulded four-centred archway and heavy planked doors that provide access to the inn and the rear courtyard. The arch spandrels are adorned with stone shields, and there is an angle buttress beside the porch. To the right of the porch, there are two stone-mullioned windows and a wood-framed door accessed by a flight of stone steps.

The two upper floors are jettied out on exposed soffit timbers and moulded brackets. The timber framing divides the front into rectangular panels with curved braces and plaster infilling. The first floor has three wood-framed casement oriel windows, one flush three-light wood casement window above the archway, and two similar casement windows on the second floor.

The rear elevation retains several original features, including three cusped stone-mullioned windows (one blocked and two with leaded lights), an octagonal stone staircase, and turned and relieving arches. Random rubble stone and stone slate-roofed outbuildings enclose a courtyard paved with stone setts, and a wood-framed gallery runs along the northwest side.

Inside, notable features include open stone fireplaces, moulded ceiling beads, and an open timber roof with wind braces. One room contains wall paintings likely from the 16th century. Historical figures associated with the inn include the Duke of Monmouth, who is said to have used it as his headquarters during a skirmish with Royalist troops, as well as Cromwell, Judge Jeffreys, and Samuel Pepys.