THE BULL HOTEL

THE BULL HOTEL, CHURCH APPROACH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1117462
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE BULL HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE BULL HOTEL, CHURCH APPROACH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1117462
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE BULL HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE BULL HOTEL, CHURCH APPROACH

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE BULL HOTEL, CHURCH APPROACH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sonning
National Grid Reference:: SU 75673 75521

Details

SU 7575 SONNING CHURCH APPROACH (south side)

14/1 The Bull Hotel 26.1.67 GV II*

Inn. Late C16 with C19-C20 addition projecting in front and at right angles on right hand. 2 storeys, timber framed with painted brick infil, colour washed brick ground floor front, old tile roof, gabled, irregular brick chimneys. West front has 5 irregular bays, in the first, second and fourth bays from left hand is upper projecting bay with gabled head. Second bay has cill supported on central bracket. 3-light early C19 wood casement windows left hand bay is over 3-light wood casement with door adjoining, the second over a similar 4-light window flanked by doors. The right hand half has a chimney with lean-to over lower part, and gabled bay to right hand. Interior has timber frame almost complete with all floor beams and joists chamfered and stopped with exception of service end. First floor casements are positioned in original openings, with original shutter grooves. Original window opening, now blocked but with diamond mullions, remains ground floor left hand rear north end. Queen post roof with clasped purlins, original rafters and large curved windbraces. B.O.E.Berkshire p.221. V.C.H. Vol lll,p.210.

Listing NGR: SU7567375521

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Legacy System number:: 41165
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 210
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 221

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.