George & Dragon, Acton

In two buildings – three-storey 18th century one on the left and a 17th century timber-framed one of two storeys with a carriage entrance on the left part. A pub with a very long history, probably stretching back to Tudor times. The list of licensees (displayed in the back bar) has been traced from 1759.

Some of the panelling in an upstairs room (not with public access) appears to be 17th-century. What distinguishes the pub in terms of its interior is the array of dark, generally plain panelling which is 18th-century and/or Victorian and gives a good impression of the surroundings countless thousands of drinkers would have experienced in pubs throughout the land a century and more ago. The large back room, now shared with an on-site brewery, is a Victorian addition and it is here that the servery is now located.

The panelling is the main feature, but there are detectable traces of a (probably at least prewar) layout in the front two rooms, and the side passage with surviving stable blocks (although strictly speaking not part of the "interior", although it is laid out as a partly-covered drinking space) also gives you an idea of how the pub operated in the past, presumably as a coaching inn.