The George Railway Hotel

BRISTOL

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

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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