The Bull Hotel
THE BULL HOTEL, THE HEADLANDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183526
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE BULL HOTEL, THE HEADLANDS
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05289/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183526
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BULL HOTEL, THE HEADLANDS
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, THE HEADLANDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Downton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 17096 21457
Details
DOWNTON THE HEADLAND SU 1721 (east side) 5/74 The Bull Hotel 23/3/60
II
Inn. Early C18. Flemish bond brick, tiled roofs, brick stacks. 5- bay central range with converted stable block to right and rear wings. 2-storey, 5-window main range with single storey and attic range to right. C19 half-glazed door in beaded case with flat wooden hood on finely carved console brackets, to left and right are canted bays with 4-pane sashes, to right are two 3-light casements and four 9-pane sashes, all with segmental heads. First floor has 3-brick plat band, two 2-light and two 3-light casements with one blind window, to right are two dormers, one louvred and one with 2-light casement. Main range has four hipped dormers with cast-iron latticed casements. To left is C19 attached bay with through cart-entry with double planked doors with strap hinges and canted bay window to both floors. Coped tile verges to right range. To rear left is converted stable block with tiled roof. Main range has outshut and two attached 2-storey wings with 2-light casements. Interior has chamfered beams with step and runout stops. Late C18 fireplace has fluted frieze and beaded surround. Sun Insurance Company disc on front. Recorded as an inn in 1726. (VCH: Wiltshire, Vol XI, 1980, Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).
Listing NGR: SU1709621457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crowley, B A, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1980)
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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