Bull House
BULL HOUSE, 40 AND 42, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162658
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bull House
- Statutory Address:
- BULL HOUSE, 40 AND 42, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162658
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bull House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BULL HOUSE, 40 AND 42, HIGH 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:
- BULL HOUSE, 40 AND 42, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 56005 46740
Details
TL 5446
15/154
LINTON
HIGH STREET (Southeast Side)
Nos. 40 and 42 (Bull House)
(Formerly listed as Nos 40, 42 and 44)
22.11.67 GV
II
House, formerly the Bull Inn, now two dwellings. c.1700. Red brick, painted front and side elevations, timber-framed and plastered gables to rear. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with attics and cellars, irregular double pile plan with roof hipped to street and forming three parallel gables to rear. Moulded wooden eaves cornice, band between floors raised over former staircase window in rear elevation and plinth. Ridge stack to left of centre, side stack to right hand and two rear stacks. Symmetrical facade of five 'bays'. Six-panelled door with wooden doorcase, four flush-framed twelve-paned hung sash windows and five similar first floor windows. There were formerly three hipped dormer windows. The Black Bull, recorded in 1694 and where the Turnpike Trustees met in 1767, became one of the first private schools in Linton in 1777.
Palmer, M W The Antiquities of Linton. 1913
Stevens, R L Linton, P.C. Pub. p35 1982
V.C.H. Vol. VI, p83
R.C.H.M. Report 1951
Millicent and Paris Maps. Pembroke College
Listing NGR: TL5600546740
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51968
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 83
Stevens, R L, Linton, (), 35
Palmer, W M, The Antiquities of Linton, (1913)
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
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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