The Bull
THE BULL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303693
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull
- Statutory Address:
- THE BULL, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04036/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303693
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BULL, CHURCH 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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wargrave
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7851178567
Details
SU 7878
16/11
26.1.67
WARGRAVE
CHURCH STREET
(south side)
The Bull
G.V.
II
Inn now Public House. C16 or earlier altered C18 and later. Timber framed
faced later with brick. Dentil course to part parapet, old tiled hipped
roofs. L-plan, 2 x 2 framed bays. 2 storeys and cellars. Church Street front:
large C17 brick chimney on right hand with rectangular base, offset head and
2 diagonal shafts with offset heads. To left of chimney are 2 upper sash
windows, glazing altered, and 2 doors on ground floor the right hand half
glazed with board pediment hood on cut brackets the left hand with
architrave surround, frieze, brackets and cornice hood. 2 storey half
octagonal bay to the left of this with brick parapet, the upper part with
false timber framing painted infilling, frieze and small cornice, 3 sash windows
with glazing bars, 3-pane in front and 2-pane at sides. High Street front :
Similar parapet. 2 storey angular bay to left, a one storey angular bay at
first floor level on cut brackets with sashes and glazing bars on right hand
and 2-coupled sash windows with glazing bars under at ground floor. Central
door. Interior: 2 large inglenook fireplaces and good quality early timber
frame exposed on ground and first floors.
V.C.H. Vo.III.p.191.
Listing NGR: SU7851178567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41316
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 191
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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