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The Bull Public House

A Grade II Listed Building in Whitwell, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8757 / 51°52'32"N

Longitude: -0.2786 / 0°16'42"W

OS Eastings: 518597

OS Northings: 221076

OS Grid: TL185210

Mapcode National: GBR H6V.8F1

Mapcode Global: VHGP5.432Y

Plus Code: 9C3XVPGC+7H

Entry Name: The Bull Public House

Listing Date: 27 May 1968

Last Amended: 8 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1347072

English Heritage Legacy ID: 162933

Also known as: The Bull Inn, Hitchin
Bull Inn

ID on this website: 101347072

Location: Whitwell, North Hertfordshire, SG4

County: Hertfordshire

District: North Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: St Paul's Walden

Built-Up Area: Whitwell

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: St Paul's Walden

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


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

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