The Bull Hotel
THE BULL HOTEL, 34, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118966
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE BULL HOTEL, 34, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118966
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BULL HOTEL, 34, EAST 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 BULL HOTEL, 34, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46734 92891
Details
1.
5191
SY 4692
1/54
EAST STREET
(South Side)
No 34
(The Bull Hotel)
II
GV
2.
C17, since a man was killed here during Monmouth's Rebellion. But most external
evidence appears to be C18, and the street front was completely re-cased in
mid C19. This is stucco. 3 storeys. Moulded eaves cornice on brackets.
Blocking course. Moulded strings and continuous sill bands to 1st and 2nd floors.
Rusticated ground floor. Moulded panels between windows on 1st floor, and
vermiculated panels between strings and sill bands. 6 ranges of sashes. 2
2-storey canted bays. Elliptical arch to yard entry. Doorway with Tuscan
pilasters and entablature.
Rear of main range is slate-hung, I tripartite flush-framed sash with glazing
bars. 1 attic dormer with casements. 2 ventilation grilles to cellars with
vine leaf pattern in cast iron.
2 long extensions to rear. The east one is 3-storeyed, of which the upper
2 are jettied: 4 ranges of cased flush-framed sashes with glazing bars. Further
south are more coursed rubble and brick extensions which culminate in a block
with a hipped slate roof, segment headed passageway through, an external brick
stair to rear with stone treads, and a clock in the front.
The west extension has a lamp on a cast iron bracket in the front part. Further
south are 2 storey colour washed brick stables; pitched slate roof; 4 planked
stable doors: 1 planked double door; 2 planked loft doors; 8 slatted openings
for ventilation.
Nos 8 to 36 (even) form a group with the United Reformed and Methodist Church.
Listing NGR: SY4673492891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104541
- 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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