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The Bulls Head, Sowerby Bridge

Description: The Bulls Head

Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 July 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 339415

OS Grid Reference: SE0594723585
OS Grid Coordinates: 405947, 423585
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7087, -1.9114

Location: Town Hall Street, Halifax, Calderdale HX6 2QG

Locality: Sowerby Bridge
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 2QG

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Listing Text

SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN HALL STREET
SE 0423 & SE 0523
(north side)
12/283
The Bulls Head
GV II
Hotel, Mid C19 ashlar, slate roof. 3 storeys with basement, 3 bays plus
corner bay on left. Rusticated basement, moulded cill bands, central raised
panel. Paired sashes to basement. Steps with twisted iron balusters up
to central 4-panel door under fanlight in round-arched, quoined architrave
with imposts, bulls-head keystone and flanked by Tuscan pilasters supporting
entablature with dentil cornice. Above door is a sash in architrave with
triangular pediment on consoles, and to 2nd floor paired round-arched sashes
with bracketed cill and hoodmould. Other bays have paired sashes with bracketed
cills breaking cill bands. Corner bay has basement windows shouldered-arched,
canted bay window with cornice and blocking course to ground floor, a sash
with console cornice to lst floor, and paired round-arch sashes with hoodmoulds
to 2nd floor. Moulded cornice breaking forward over central bay; blocking
course. Brick end stacks. Included for group value.


Listing NGR: SE0594723585

Source: English Heritage

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