13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN
13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268973
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN
- Statutory Address:
- 13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268973
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN
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:
- 13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32626 12681
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE BULL PLAIN
817-1/17/16 (West side)
Nos.13A, 15 AND 15A
GV II
Former inn, now shops with offices above. C16 and C17, with
C20 alterations. Timber-framed, plastered, with old tiled roof
hipped at north end, and with rear outshot at higher level
with hipped end rising above main ridge line, with brick
chimneystack with oversailing courses in front.
EXTERIOR: first floor has 1 modern steel casement window at
left, and 3 early C20 mullion and transom wood casements, 3
light: 2 light: 3 light. Ground floor of No.13 has modern
timber arcaded shopfront with moulded 'gothic' headed 4-light
window and half-glazed door at left. Wide early C20 shopfront
to No.15, which cuts across former jetty, with central
recessed doorway, plate glass display windows with canted
sides, moulded mullions and transoms and slim upper lights.
Pilasters at left and right with cut consoles with carved
semicircular tops, canted fascia with blind box above.
Recessed entrance to upper floor, No.15a, at extreme right.
INTERIOR: has exposed posts and beams at first-floor level
indicating a 4 or 5 bay structure, with 2 central bays which
are possibly a remnant of a much altered hall house. Recently
exposed C17 studwork with spiked assembly includes a stud with
older peg holes. The southern end of the building is ceiled
approximately at collar level. Roof timbers much renewed but
with halved and pegged rafters at south end, carpenters'
assembly marks, and later supplementary side purlins. Ground
floor opened out, particularly in No.13.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building is the site of the Bull Inn
from which Bull Plain takes its name. The building was
extensively remodelled as a public house in the late C19, and
again 1910 when the major ground floor shop was created.
(Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 29).
Listing NGR: TL3262612681
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461265
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 29
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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