Black Bull Public House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.

Black Bull Public House

WRENN ID
ragged-moat-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Public house
Address
Black Bull Public House, Market Place, Wolsingham, DL13 3AB
OS grid reference
NZ 076 372
Coordinates
54.72986, -1.88342
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Black Bull Public House is an inn that dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone some alterations. It features painted incised stucco with a plinth, while the left return gable of the taller section is made of coursed squared sandstone. The rear wing is constructed from sandstone rubble with some rendering and has ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and includes stone gable coping, as well as chimneys made of ashlar and yellow brick or rendered materials.

The building has a Z-plan layout and consists of a two-storey, two-bay left section, and a higher, projecting right section that has three storeys and two bays, with the second bay projecting. There is also a lower rear left wing. An extruded entrance porch, which is one storey and one bay, features a late 19th-century sash window at the front and a renewed door on the left return. The first bay of the left section has tripartite sashes, a late 19th-century sash above the porch, and another late 19th-century sash in the three-storey section, all with raised stone surrounds. The first bay of the three-storey part has paired ground-floor sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The roof of the two-storey section has slightly swept eaves, with a left end chimney made of brick on an ashlar plinth. The roof of the three-storey section features left gable coping with a curved kneeler and a hipped roof over the projecting right bay, along with two end chimneys that are rendered.

Local climate

Black Bull Public House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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