The Bull Hotel
THE BULL HOTEL, 64 AND 66, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332253
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE BULL HOTEL, 64 AND 66, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332253
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Bull Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BULL HOTEL, 64 AND 66, 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 HOTEL, 64 AND 66, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stony Stratford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 78711 40504
Details
1. 5135 HIGH STREET (North -East Side) Stony Stratford Nos 64 and 66 (The Bull Hotel) SP 7840 1/30 12.6.55.
II* GV
2. late C18 3 storey diapered brick house with slate roof, deep eaves and cornice. 5 windows, glazing bar sashes with painted plaster heads and keys, 3 light windows at both ends of 1st floor. No 66 has small shop front - 3 pilasters for door and wide window, dentil cornice to fascia. Cambered archway to yard, south of which is hotel entrance with large squat sash windows at both sides with multiple glazing bars (late). Wooden doorcase of 2 half columns supporting an entablature with large cornice (billets and bead and reel). Within there is a reeded architrave and. deep panelled reveals and soffit and panelled door. Contewmwu wrought iron overthrow of magnificent dimensions. Entirely rivetted; coiled ends. Supporting sign of a white shorthorn bull. Range of sheds and stables to north-east included, as also wing to north-west which retains Norwich Union fire insurance mark. High pitched tiled roofs. These outbuildings continue to Vicarage Road, separated by a large rebuilt shed. With the gabled brick ranges at the rear of No 68 High Street, also on Vicarage Road, they form a pleasant courtyard of mixed stone and brick. The rivalry between the Cock and Bull Hotels in coaching days is said to be the origin of the metaphor.
Nos 62 to 86 (even) including Nos 66A 70A, and 86A, Nos 88 to 106 (even) and the former St Anthony Franciscan Preoaratory School form a group.
Listing NGR: SP7871640500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 45517
- 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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