Black Bull Public House
BLACK BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233104
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Black Bull Public House
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233104
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Black Bull Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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 PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolsingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 07606 37214
Details
WOLSINGHAM MARKET PLACE NZ 0737 (South side) Wolsingham 39/384 Black Bull Public House
GV II
Inn, now public house. Mid C18 with alterations. Painted incised stucco with plinth; left return gable of taller part is of coursed squared sandstone; rear wing sandstone rubble with some rendering; ashlar dressings. Roof of Welsh slate with stone gable coping and ashlar and yellow brick or rendered chimneys. Z-plan. 2-storey, 2-bay left part; higher projecting right part has 3 storeys and 2 bays, the second projecting. Lower rear left wing. One-storey, one-bay extruded entrance porch has late C19 sash to front; renewed door in left return. Tripartite sashes in first bay, late C19 sash over porch, and late C19 sash in 3-storey part have raised stone surrounds; first bay of 3-storey part has paired ground-floor sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Roof has slightly swept eaves over 2-storey part with left end chimney of brick on ashlar plinth. Roof of 3-storey part has left gable coping with curved kneeler; hipped roof over projecting right bay; 2 end rendered chimneys.
Listing NGR: NZ0760637214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408550
- 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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