The George Inn, Lacock

The George Inn

4 West Street, Lacock SN15 2LH

Grade C · TraditionTrading · checked Sept 2026

The George Inn claims 1300. No earlier record has been found.

Claimed

1300

First record

none found

Building

no single date

The building. Inn, C16 or earlier, timber frame and rubble stone with a stone slate roof, extended in an ashlar range in the early C19 (Historic England); the Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Environment Record puts the same building a period earlier, entering it as an inn and timber-framed building of the medieval period, with a coach house behind it — we give it no single date because Historic England gives C16 or earlier, which is not a datable year.

Food

Real ale

Beer garden

Village

Fireplaces

The claim

The village pub in National Trust Lacock, with a wide stone hearth, low beams and a dog wheel by the fire that once turned the spit. Wadworth beers, a long food menu and a garden behind. Film crews use the street outside often, which the bar takes in its stride.

What the records show

The George presents itself as a 14th-century pub, and CAMRA repeats the date. Historic England lists it as an inn of C16 or earlier date, timber-framed and rubble-stone with a cross wing to the street and an early C19 ashlar range alongside. The county record does not agree with the national one. The Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Environment Record carries the house as monument MWI34179, The George Inn, Lacock, typed as an inn and a timber-framed building, and assigns it to the medieval period; it records a coach house to the rear as MWI72598, and refers anyone wanting detail to the listed building description and to the Wiltshire Buildings Record, which we have not read. The HER's period is a classification and not a dated survey - medieval runs from the Conquest to the 1540s, so it does not reach 1300 by itself - but it does mean one register reads this fabric as earlier than the other, and the reader should know that before deciding what to make of the 14th century. The National Trust, which owns Lacock village and the freehold, and Wadworth, which runs the bar, both trade on the older figure. No record of drinking here before the 16th century has been traced.

What to look for inside

Dog wheel beside the fireplace, once used to turn the spit
In a village owned by the National Trust
Wadworth of Devizes runs the bar

Visiting

The George Inn is in Lacock, England, at 4 West Street, Lacock SN15 2LH. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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