Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 KING STREET
792-1/3/70 (West side)
18/01/49 The Royal George Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
KING STREET
Nos.72 AND 74
Royal George Hotel)

GV II

Coaching inn and hotel. Late C18 with later additions and
alterations, possibly incorporating structural remains of an
earlier building. Brick with Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: deep plan comprising 3 parallel ranges, the rear range
forming the assembly-rooms lit by 4 tall round-arched windows.
Circular wig-room in wing expressed externally as shallow
projecting bow.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4-window range. Main entrance off covered
way which runs through the building to the right. Segmental
archway with stuccoed voussoirs and quoins to covered way,
with paired 4-pane sash windows above with stuccoed keys to
flat-arched gauged brick heads. Late C19 2-storeyed canted bay
window to the left of the entry, and projecting full-height
2-window range beyond.
INTERIOR: assembly room and circular 'wig room' to rear
survive substantially unaltered from late C18. Plaster work in
assembly room comprising low dado and tall wall panels, with
rosette frieze below cornice, and a high frieze over, a
repetitive design of garlands and wreaths. Musical emblems in
the triglyph frieze above. Plaster medallions to ceiling.
Coved recess beneath gallery in end wall, with ornamental
plasterwork forming architrave. Pair of fireplaces in long
wall, with musical motifs in entablature, and fluted shafts
each side. Similar, but less ornate plaster-work in present
dining room which has Palladian window in gable end. Late C18
staircase with moulded tread ends, turned spindles and swept
and moulded rail.

Listing NGR: SJ7518878695

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667939

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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