Bull Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1954. Hotel, inn. 7 related planning applications.
Bull Hotel
- WRENN ID
- quartered-rafter-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1954
- Type
- Hotel, inn
- Address
- Bull Hotel, Bull Ring, Ludlow, SY8 1AD
- OS grid reference
- SO 512 747
- Coordinates
- 52.3686, -2.71796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Hotel is an inn, likely with a 16th-century core and a front that was rebuilt in the later 18th century. The front is painted stucco, with brick and timber-frame construction, and has a late 20th-century plain tile roof. A late 19th-century brick stack stands on the right side, and another is at the rear. The front is three storeys high and has a two-window range. The windows on the second floor are late 19th-century sashes, with two panes divided by two, and six panes divided by six. Above those are two-pane sashes over an altered window to the far left. A storey band is present, along with banded and molded eaves and coping to the parapet.
A courtyard to the right has 20th-century plank folding doors, and exposed ceiling beams. A 19th-century entrance to the smoke room features etched glass. To the left, a 19th-century window has a two-over-six upper sash over leaded lower sections.
Above the rear passage is a 16th-century jettied timber-frame with a mutilated lower frame and a studded bressummer. Above that is an 18th-century canted oriel with enriched consoles, and a small 20th-century casement to the right. Above this is a 19th-century loading platform and a 20th-century plank door, which obscures the enriched consoles of a probable oriel, beneath a further enriched bressummer. A weather-boarded gable has a pulley joist and a 20th-century light.
A parallel gable continues as a two-storey rear range dating back to around 1415, consisting of five bays under a 20th-century plain tile roof. This section has a four-window range of three early 19th-century casements, one 20th-century casement to the right, and plank loft doors to the far right. The rear range is partially plastered and partially weather-boarded, with 19th and 20th-century doors and lattice leaded casements set into mainly 19th and 20th-century brickwork set within a mutilated timber-frame. It is jettied with coved brackets to massive main beams. A 20th-century wrought-iron sign hanger is also present.
Local climate
Bull Hotel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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