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Publication Account
Date 1995
Event ID 1019340
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019340
On the other corner of Church Street and George Street another building, the George Hotel, reflects another aspect of late eighteenth-century Stranraer life figure 20. Stranraer was a staging post for the short crossing from Scotland to Ireland. This fine coaching inn may once have been the home of the Stairs, but by the late eighteenth century it had become a hostelry for wealthy travellers. With a three-storeyed symmetrical facade, it remains an elegant building, with its stable entrance (essential in the days of horse-drawn coaches) still to be seen in Church Street. It was said in the nineteenth century by a visitor to the town that it had 'capital accommodation for both man and beast'.
Information from ‘Historic Stranraer: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1995).
