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The George Railway Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Latitude: 51.4491 / 51°26'56"N

Longitude: -2.5849 / 2°35'5"W

OS Eastings: 359447

OS Northings: 172392

OS Grid: ST594723

Mapcode National: GBR CBM.BD

Mapcode Global: VH88N.4VS0

Plus Code: 9C3VCCX8+J2

Entry Name: The George Railway Hotel

Listing Date: 30 December 1994

Last Amended: 28 February 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1291650

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380793

ID on this website: 101291650

Location: Box Makers Yard, Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: St Mary Redcliffe with Temple, Bristol and St John the Baptist, Bedminster

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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BRISTOL

ST5972 VICTORIA STREET
901-1/42/338 (South West side)
The George Railway Hotel

II

Railway hotel, now public house. c1870. Render with limestone
dressings, lateral stacks and half-hipped pantile mansard
roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 6-window range.
A corner site with a 3-window curved left-hand corner and an
8-window left return; a near-symmetrical front framed by
banded pilaster strips through sill bands, a plat band cornice
and parapet, the central 3-window section set forward with
banded first floor containing a niche with a figure of Queen
Victoria, and with THE GEORGE RAILWAY HOTEL beneath the
cornice. Doorways with C20 doors to each end, that to the left
between 2 small windows. Ground-floor windows linked by raised
Gibbs blocks, with keyed segmental heads, first-floor windows
with eared and shouldered architraves with large split keys; a
tall central dormer has paired consoles to a segmental
pediment and a shouldered architrave, with semicircular-arched
dormer to the left and on the corner. 4/4-pane horned sashes.
Similar left return with a statueless 2-window centre section
and 6 dormers each side of the central one. The pilaster
strips framing the corner form lateral stacks. INTERIOR: C20
public house interior. One of only a few large, decorative
late Victorian public houses in the city.

Listing NGR: ST5944772392

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