The Old Black Bull Public House

PRESTON

SD5329NE FRIARGATE 941-1/9/135 (South side) 27/09/79 No.35 The Old Black Bull PH (Formerly Listed as: FRIARGATE No.35 Old Black Bull Hotel)

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Public house. c.1900. Brick with facing of green glazed terracotta at ground floor and applied black-and-white "half-timbering" above, slate roof. Double-depth plan. Tudor style. Three storeys over cellar, a symmetrical 3-window facade with slightly jettied 2nd floor and gable with barge-boards and finial. The ground floor has a wide elliptical-arched window in the centre with enriched dark green surround including imposts and keystone, and yellow apron with raised red and green lettering "THE OLD BLACK BULL"; and flanking doorways with segmental-pedimented architraves of the same material, including panelled pilasters and scrolled brackets. The upper floors have wooden mullioned windows: at 1st floor, a shallow canted 10-light transomed oriel on brackets in the centre, flanked by cross-windows with small arcades beneath, and 2, 3, and 2-light windows at 2nd floor with an ornamental splat-balustrade beneath. The gable has a bressummer and pegged fish-bone struts. Painted inn-sign hanging from prominent scrolled wrought-iron bracket at 2nd floor. INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5372229526