List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: GEORGE AND DRAGON INN
List entry Number: 1329885
Location
GEORGE AND DRAGON INN, HIGH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cheshire West and Chester | Unitary Authority | Great Budworth |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 27-Aug-1986
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 57544
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History
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Details
SJ 67 NE GREAT BUDWORTH C.P. HIGH STREET
North Side
6/79 George anti Dragon Inn
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GV II
Inn, circa 1880, by John Douglas for Rowland Egerton Warburton.
Brick; roughcast upper storey; hipped clay-tile roofs. 2 storeys;
symmetrical with 1 bay to each side of pyramid-roofed 2-storey
projecting porch with oak door on ornate hinges in basket-arched
opening; moulded brick 1st floor band; above the inner door a stone is
inscribed with Warburton's verse: "As Saint George in armed
affray/Doth the fiery dragon slay/So may'st thou with might no
less/Slay the dragon drunkeness"; brick-mullioned 4-light leaded
window; cavetto plaster eaves. Each wing has a brick-mullioned window
of 4 lights to lower storey and of 3 lights to upper storey; steep
roof with lucarne in each wing; lateral chimney left linked by small
roof to hip. Sides and rear wing have no features of special
interest. Very rich cut-out pictorial sign on ornate, long wrought
iron bracket from right corner of inn, made in 1880's by the estate
blacksmith. Oak post-and-rail fence to each side of porch inscribed:
LIFE IS BUT SEEDTIME AND HARVEST : GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH + WHEN DRINK
YOUR ALES (with carved Green Man's head) : REST ALL YE NIGH ALEYARD &
KIRKYARD : DO NOUGHT THEREIN BESET WITH SINS : LABOUR MIGHTILY :
PROSPER HE WHO BUILDETH ON ROCK : NOUGHT GREAT IS WON WITHOUT PRICE :
REMEMBER THEM : BEWARE YE BEELZEBUB : GUARD WELL THY FREEDOM : YEA MAN
SHALL REACH OUT AND EVEN SOW SEED UPON STAYS.
Interior: Some features by Douglas survive; stone in bar inscribed
NIL NIMIUM CUPITO Mee : R+I : 1722. (I desire nothing to excess); a
little C17 structure may be incorporated in the present building.
"This inn is not all new, but has been refaced .... with very good
result. It forms a most pleasing point of interest at the corner of
the roadway with its Nuremburg sign-piece, steep-tiled roof ....
moulded brickwork window jambs and leaded lights" T Raffles Davison,
The British Architect DECEMBER 12 1884.
Listing NGR: SJ6642677542
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Title: 12 December - Date: 1884 - Journal Title: The British Architect
National Grid Reference: SJ 66430 77537
Map
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