White Bull Hotel and Former Stable Adjoining to the North
WHITE BULL HOTEL AND FORMER STABLE ADJOINING TO THE NORTH, WATER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308491
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- White Bull Hotel and Former Stable Adjoining to the North
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE BULL HOTEL AND FORMER STABLE ADJOINING TO THE NORTH, WATER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308491
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- White Bull Hotel and Former Stable Adjoining to the North
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE BULL HOTEL AND FORMER STABLE ADJOINING TO THE NORTH, WATER 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:
- WHITE BULL HOTEL AND FORMER STABLE ADJOINING TO THE NORTH, WATER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ribchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65048 35208
Details
SD 63 NE RIBCHESTER WATER STREET
8/153 White Bull Hotel and former stable adjoining to the north 25.7.52 (formerly listed as White Bull Inn under Church Street)
GV II
Public house, probably early C18th. Squared sandstone rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with string course, flat floor drip course, shaped stone gutter brackets and 2-storey porch to the 2nd bay. The windows are modern on the ground floor and sashed on the 1st floor, except for the 1st floor porch windows which are also modern. The windows now have plain reveals with fragments of old surrounds. The right-hand ground-floor bay has been reconstructed, with a door and 2 modern shop windows. To their left is a blocked opening with a lintel dated '1707', possibly re-set. The porch is gabled with coping and kneelers and carried on 4 Tuscan columns said to be Roman. Its 1st floor windows, on the front and return walls, have plain stone surrounds. The blocked attic window has an architrave. The door has a moulded surround. There are brick chimney caps on the gables and between the 3rd and 4th bays. The former stable adjoining to the north has a door with plain stone surround to the right. To its left is a door now blocked to form a window with chamfered surround dated '1777' on the lintel. On the 1st floor to the left is a circular pitching hole with plain stone surround.
Listing NGR: SD6504835208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183039
- 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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