The Black Bull

The Black Bull is a house that was formerly an inn, dating from the early 16th century and the late 17th or 18th century. It features painted local brick with a plastered timber frame and has a steeply pitched slate roof, with a rear stack and a gable stack on the north side. The building is two storeys high with attics, and includes an early 16th-century rear wing that is one storey and has an attic, forming an L-shape with a stair turret in the angle.

On the east facade, there is a band at the first floor level, with three recessed casement windows on the first floor and three recessed casement windows on the ground floor, all set in segmental brick arches. One of the ground floor windows blocks the original entrance to a cross passage.

Inside, there is a large inglenook hearth with a replacement mantel beam, and exposed early 16th-century wall frames that have similar bracing details to those found in the Old Rectory on High Street, Landbeach, along with reused jetty joists. The main range features stop-chamfered pine ceiling beams, and there are no original partitions in the upper chambers.