Black Bull Public House
BLACK BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228224
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Black Bull Public House
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-11-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/05623/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228224
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Black Bull Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET 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:
- BLACK BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittlesey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26930 97062
Details
TL 2697 WHITTLESEY MARKET STREET (North Side)
19/120 Black Bull PH 11. 8.50 (formerly listed as Nos 18/21 Black Bull)
GV II
Public House. Mid-late C17. Rubblestone with dressed stone to window openings and details, on stone plinth. Steeply pitched roof, now covered in concrete tiles with original coved eaves of plaster with roll moulding to lower edge. Original end stack of stone ashlar with recessed panels to sides, with entablature, on a square base with splayed upper edge. Right hand end stack, brick, C19. Two storeys and attic. Three gable dormers, C20. Moulded stone band between storeys. Four casements with original stone surrounds and ovolo mullions and a single light window with similar moulding at first floor. The three window openings at ground floor are C19 enlargements of the original but the window to the left hand appears to have the remains of the original surround. Original pedimented doorway at left end (Pevsner p.483) now removed. In the rear wall, first floor, one similar, original, blocked, window. The rest of the wall is obscured by additions. Inside the ground floor rooms have been much altered but retain stop chamfered main beams. Access to the first floor was unobtainable.
Listing NGR: TL2692697068
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 483
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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