The Bull Public House
THE BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250068
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250068
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, 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:
- THE BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67924 41771
Details
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY HIGH STREET, BRENCHLEY (south side) 15/132 The Bull Public House
GV II
Public House. 1880s, built on the site of the 'Old Bull' which burnt down. Yellow brick with red brick dressings; peg-tile roofs; brick stacks with rendered shafts. Eclectic High Victorian.
Plan: Facing north, directly on to the High Street. Asymmetrical plan, formerly 3 rooms wide plus a one-room plan block at the right (west) end.
Exterior: The lively and very intact Victorian brick exterior is an important foil to the pre 1700 tile-hung and framed buildings in the centre of the village. 2 storeys and attic. The front elevation has red brick quoins and red brick segmental arches to the recessed ground floor windows and doors, the arches continued across the front as bands of brick moulded in a guilloche ornament with a nail-head moulding below. Moulded red brick corbel table below the eaves above a frieze decorated with roundels. The front gable has a red brick toothed banding to the verges. Terra-cotta finials to the gables. Original windows throughout with moulded timber mullions, high transoms and segmental-headed mullioned lights above the transom. Asymmetrical 3-window front, plus one window to the single-storey block at the far right end. One- window block at the left end, gabled to the front, the 2-window block, slightly set back at the right had a large half-hipped attic dormer. 2 original half-glazed doors into the right hand block of the main range, flanking a 3-light window. Similar 3-light window to ground floor left and 2 to the single-storey block at the far right end. Similar 2- and 3-light windows to the first floor and the attic gable and dormer. The single-storey block has a large ventilator on the ridge. The right (west) return of the main range is also very complete.
Interior: The crosswalls between the 3 rooms have been partly removed. Carved chimney-piece to the left end stack. Original joinery survives including a stair and doors.
A circa 1884 photograph, reproduced in A Victorian Pictorial Record of Brenchley and Matfield (n.d., c.1988) shows the newly-built Bull advertising "Good Stables and Coach House".
Listing NGR: TQ6792241776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432301
- 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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