Description

PRESTON

SD5429NW CHURCH STREET
941-1/10/75 (South side)
Nos.89 AND 90
The George Hotel and shop adjoining
to the right

GV II

Public house and attached shop. Mid C19, altered. Brown brick,
No.89 (George Hotel) with painted stucco facade, and No.90
painted. Double-depth plan. Three storeys over cellar, 3+2
windows. No.89 is symmetrical, has channelled rustication at
ground floor and raised quoins above, and a plain frieze and
prominent moulded cornice; central doorway with moulded
architrave (lintel inscribed "GEORGE HOTEL 1922") and a
bracketed cornice; cellar windows with iron grills, ground
floor windows with altered glazing, and sashed windows on the
upper floors; and side-wall chimneys in front and behind the
ridge. Immediately to the right is a large basket-arched wagon
entrance to an entry through No.90, which has voussoirs linked
to the rustication of No.89; otherwise, No.90 has a C19 shop
front at ground floor, 2 sashed windows on each floor above, a
frieze and cornice continued from No.89, and side-wall
chimneys. INTERIOR of No.89: mosaic tiled floor to porch
lettered "GEORGE HOTEL", and some other early C20 tiling.

Listing NGR: SD5449729583

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502418

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version