The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 FORDWICH FORDWICH ROAD (east side)
The George and Dragon Inn TR 1759 26/235
II
2. Probably Cl7. Two builds. L-shaped building refaced with roughcast. Tiled roof. To the north-west, 3 windows above one and a bay; to the south-west two windows, one of 2 lights above one of 3 lights and one with fixed glazing. Most of the windows have hung sashes but no glazing bars. Two doors with flat hoods, one with carved brackets. Three windows to south elevation.
Listing NGR: TR1797759758

Description from record TR 15 NE 883:
By mid May 1940 the 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, moving to the environs of Canterbury ‘to defeat any hostile attempt to land by sea or air’, had established headquarters at the George and Dragon public house, beside Fordwich Bridge. The battalion moved on at end of the month but it seems likely the building remained in military (perhaps Home Guard?) use, as a fortified house covering Fordwich Bridge immediately to the north. It was probably fortified house No. 11 (Military Grid Reference R 620779) in a list of such structures made 2 December 1940.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : Unknown
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Condition : unknown
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Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : Unknown
How accessed for survey :
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Condition : unknown
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Monitoring of alterations to the public house revealed that it was formed from three independent timber-framed buildings(1)

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15394.

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15393.

9 Royal Fusiliers, 01/01/40, War Diary 9 Royal Fusiliers 1940 (Unpublished document). SKE15392.

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2000, The George and Dragon, Fordwich, near Canterbury: a watching brief (Unpublished document). SKE54886.