The Bull Inn
THE BULL INN, BICESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200434
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE BULL INN, BICESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200434
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BULL INN, BICESTER ROAD
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 INN, BICESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Launton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60896 22470
Details
SP6022 LAUNTON BICESTER ROAD (South side)
13/86 The Bull Inn
- II
Public house. C17 and early C18. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; colourwashed rubble, brick and timber framing with brick nogging; plain-tile and thatch roofs with brick gable stacks. Long range of at least 2 builds. 2 storeys plus attics and one storey plus attics. Higher C18 rubble section has a 4-window front with tall casements at first floor (the middle windows blocked), renewed windows at ground floor (one a single-light) and the entrance in the right bay. Tiled roof with a small roof dormer, has linked gable stacks (3 to left and 2 to right) and the boxed eaves are carried on a moulded wooden cove. Long thatched section to right, curving forwards, has irregular altered fenestration in rubble and brick walls, but the bay to extreme left is timber framed and has some herringbone nogging. Roof is half-hipped to right and has one small dormer. Interior: chamfered beams; open fireplace. (V.C.H.: 0xfordshire, Vol.VI, p.233).
Listing NGR: SP6089622470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 233
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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