Building record 1252100000 - THE GEORGE, HIGH STREET

Grade II. C17 timber-framed house, altered with mainly early C19 front of 5 bays and 2 storeys. Rendered with false timber-framing to first floor. Barred sashes, with sidelights to ground floor. Left hand canted bay window. Right hand shallow projection. Carriage arch bay 4. Continuous hood on cut brackets bays 2, 3, 4. Old tile roof. To left of carraigeway C17 brick stack with 3 flues. At rear timber-framing exposed over carriageway. RCHM I 85 MON.6 (B1).
Document relating to a Chancery Court Case held in 1743 details a dispute between the the descendants of Colbourne Hodgkins, and his son Flammock Hodgkins, as to which of them had the right to the lease of the George Inn (the family had made conflicting grants of the George in a marriage dowry, wills and a loan). Colbourn Hodgkins had been granted the lease of the George c.1671 and he then passed it to his son Flammock Hodgkins. The document includes details of the ownership of the George and its site going back to the 1660s and possibly before and includes mention of its ownership by the Bulstrode and Dudsbury families amongst others. It states that a building called 'Mosses Barne' was 'pulled down and modified' by a Jarvas Good and then became known as the George Inn and rented to Colbourn Hodgkins (B2).