The Bull Public House
THE BULL PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347072
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- 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:
- 1347072
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Feb-1988
- 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:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Paul's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18597 21076
Details
TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN HIGH STREET (North side) Whitwell
12/141 The Bull P.H. (formerly listed as 27.5.68 "The Bull Inn")
GV II
Inn, now a public house. Early C17, mentioned as the Bull Inn 1675, late C17 brick rear wing at NW, alterations and E extension 1814 when bought by Henry Crabb, brewer of Hitchin. Timber frame roughcast with steep red tile roof, painted brick extensions, that at E with hipped roof. A tall 2-storeys and attics building facing S, fronting the street, with jetties at 2 levels. 2 canted oriel windows to 1st floor step out to support gabled dormers above the eaves with 2-light leaded casements. Transomed windows to ground floor flanking central door. Foliated bracket at E end of jetty. Inn Sign carried by very large gallows-like oak bracket on front with cusped brace. Old prints show a sign on a beam with end posts spanning the road. Very large internal chimney near E end with axial shaft above roof with 3 flues. Projecting large W gable chimney with 2 square shafts set diagonally. Long single-storey and cellar wing at rear. Vast catslide rear roofslope with gabled stair turret in middle. Exposed timbers inside and large open fireplace at E. (Branch Johnson (1962)109: Pevsner (1977)405).
Listing NGR: TL1859721076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162933
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 405
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 109
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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