The George Railway Hotel
THE GEORGE RAILWAY HOTEL, VICTORIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291650
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The George Railway Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GEORGE RAILWAY HOTEL, VICTORIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291650
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The George Railway Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GEORGE RAILWAY HOTEL, VICTORIA STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GEORGE RAILWAY HOTEL, VICTORIA STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59447 72392
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380793
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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