The Old Black Bull Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Public house. 4 related planning applications.

The Old Black Bull Public House

WRENN ID
blind-entrance-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
The Old Black Bull Public House, 35, Friargate, PR1 2AT
OS grid reference
SD 537 295
Coordinates
53.76008, -2.70332
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Black Bull Public House is a public house built around 1900. It is constructed of brick with a facing of green glazed terracotta at the ground floor and features applied black-and-white "half-timbering" above, topped with a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in a Tudor style, standing three storeys over a cellar.

The facade is symmetrical with three windows and includes a slightly jettied second floor and a gable adorned with barge-boards and a finial. The ground floor features a wide elliptical-arched window in the center, surrounded by an enriched dark green frame that includes imposts and a keystone, along with a yellow apron displaying raised red and green lettering that reads "THE OLD BLACK BULL." There are also flanking doorways with segmental-pedimented architraves made of the same material, which include panelled pilasters and scrolled brackets.

On the upper floors, there are wooden mullioned windows. The first floor has a shallow canted 10-light transomed oriel window on brackets in the center, flanked by cross-windows with small arcades beneath. The second floor features 2, 3, and 2-light windows with an ornamental splat-balustrade below. The gable is supported by a bressummer and pegged fish-bone struts. A painted inn-sign hangs from a prominent scrolled wrought-iron bracket at the second floor. The interior has been altered.

Local climate

The Old Black Bull Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
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