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The National Trust preserves a good sample of small-scale historical commercial architecture, including:

  • offices and commercial buildings

  • public houses and inns

  • markets, market crosses and houses

  • studios and galleries

  • shops


One remarkable survival is the George Inn at Southwark, in central London, a reminder of the galleried inns which were once abundant from medieval times. It is still in use as a pub today. The Trust owns some three dozen inns and public houses in current use, which are either directly managed by the Trust or tenanted.

Typical market structures include covered halls, such as the Market Hall at Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire, and crosses such as Colston Bassett Market Cross, Nottinghamshire - probably the Trust's smallest property.



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View of the Red Lion Pub in the High Street in Lacock Village. The imposing red brick facade was built around 1740 but conceals a much older building.


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see also

relevant properties
Beatrix Potter Gallery
The Fleece Inn
George Inn
Gray’s Printing Press
Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village
Lundy
websites
Branscombe - The Old Bakery, Manor Mill
Crown Liquor Saloon
King's Head
Little Fleece Bookshop
Winster Market House
books
'All Beer and Skittles? A Short History of Inns and Taverns' : Ed Gibbons (2001)