Duke Of Lancaster Public House

The Duke of Lancaster Public House, formerly known as the Black Bull Hotel, is a public house dating to approximately 1900. It was likely designed by Austin and Paley. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with roughcast to the upper floors and ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with red clay ridge tiles, decorative finials, and chimney stacks. It occupies a corner site with a rectangular plan, including cellars and attics.

The main building has three asymmetrical bays facing both Church Street and China Street, with a rounded bay on the corner. The corner bay features paired windows on each floor, rising to a round turret at roof level, topped with a dome, a cornice, and a spike finial. Pilasters flank the corner bay, supporting a cornice that rises to form a segmental open pediment above the doorways. The doorways, which have round-headed moulded arches with fluted keystones, are centrally located on both street facades, though the doors themselves are modern.

On Church Street, the ground-floor windows are symmetrically placed, tripartite with stone mullions and flat scrolled aprons. Timber transoms curve in the central light. The first-floor windows are arranged with a single light above the doorway, flanked by paired windows above the ground-floor windows; each has a plain cornice. A centrally placed attic gable features prominent bargeboards and a plain Venetian-style window under a tile-hung apex.

The ground-floor elevation on China Street incorporates a paired window with heavy keystones, a doorway, a single window, and a tripartite window, detailed similarly to those on Church Street. The first floor has three single windows, followed by three linked windows above the tripartite window. An attic gable to the right contains a flat oriel supported by brackets; a dormer is situated to the left. A two-story side wing and a small two-story stable, across a yard to the right along China Street, are of simpler design but are original and consistent with the overall style. They include stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.