The Bull Hotel With Integral Shop Inspirations And The Autoshop To Right With Assembly Room Above

A public house with Assembly Rooms and two shops, dating to the 16th century, with later alterations in the late 18th century, around 1800, the late 19th century, and the 20th century. The building is constructed of colourwashed and rendered brick, with pantile roofs featuring moulded stone eaves. The west front, dating to around 1800, is six bays wide and has first and second floor bands. A carriage archway is located to the right of the west front, featuring a segmental head, keystone, moulded imposts, and chamfered jambs. A 20th-century shop front of little interest is situated to the right of the carriage archway, with a central deep-set glazing bar door. Two shallow canted bay windows are to the left of the archway, each with three plain sashes divided by plain pilasters and a dentillated entablature above. Six plain sashes are positioned above, each with moulded architraves. A roundel, set between the second and third windows from the left, displays a stucco relief of a prancing bull. The two-bay front to the right features a 20th-century shop front of no interest, with a central deep-set glazed door flanked by plate windows. Above this, an Assembly Room window is a tripartite glazing bar sash with a segmental head and ornate traceried fanlight, with two further glazing bar sashes above, both with segmental heads. The Assembly Room's interior features a delicate moulded cornice painted gold and two gold roundels in the ceiling, along with 20th-century murals. The public bar in the north range contains a heavily beamed ceiling. The southeast range has an ornate late 19th or 20th-century tie-beam roof. The late 18th-century southeast range's north front is three bays wide, incorporating a doorway to the left with a blocked semi-circular head and plank door, and a doorway to the right with a semi-circular head, plain fanlight, and double stable doors. A tripartite glazing bar sash with a segmental head and ornate traceried fanlight is further west at first floor level, accompanied by a small 20th-century casement. The northeast range’s six-bay south front includes a doorway to the right with a segmental head and plank door, a doorway to the left with a semi-circular head, plain fanlight, and plank door, followed by a two-light casement with a segmental head, a single glazing bar sash, and a doorway with a plank door. A mid-18th-century bow window with glazing bars is situated underneath a 20th-century bridge connecting the north and south ranges. A 16th-century bridge to the west displays exposed beams. The east front features a tripartite glazing bar sash and an 18th-century balustrade embedded in the wall below.