The George Railway Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. Railway hotel. 1 related planning application.
The George Railway Hotel
- WRENN ID
- fossil-brass-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1994
- Type
- Railway hotel
- Address
- The George Railway Hotel, Victoria Street, BS1 6AU
- OS grid reference
- ST 594 723
- Coordinates
- 51.44905, -2.58496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George Railway Hotel is a railway hotel that has been converted into a public house, built around 1870. It features a rendered exterior with limestone dressings, lateral stacks, and a half-hipped pantile mansard roof. The building has a double-depth plan, consisting of 2 storeys and an attic, and presents a six-window range. It occupies a corner site with a three-window curved left-hand corner and an eight-window left return. The nearly symmetrical front is framed by banded pilaster strips that run through sill bands, a plat band cornice, and a parapet. The central three-window section is set forward and includes a banded first floor with a niche containing a figure of Queen Victoria, along with the name "THE GEORGE RAILWAY HOTEL" displayed beneath the cornice.
There are doorways with 20th-century doors at each end, with the left doorway positioned between two small windows. The ground-floor windows are linked by raised Gibbs blocks, featuring keyed segmental heads, while the first-floor windows have eared and shouldered architraves with large split keys. A tall central dormer is adorned with paired consoles beneath a segmental pediment and a shouldered architrave, accompanied by a semicircular-arched dormer to the left and on the corner. The windows are 4/4-pane horned sashes. The left return mirrors this design, with a statueless two-window centre section and six dormers flanking the central one. The pilaster strips framing the corner also form lateral stacks.
Inside, the hotel has a 20th-century public house interior. It is one of the few large, decorative late Victorian public houses remaining in the city.
Local climate
The George Railway Hotel receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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