Black Bull Public House

TL 3629 BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (east side)

7/9 No 16 (Black Bull P.H. ) 22.2.67 (formerly listed as the Black Bull Inn No 16)

GV II

Inn, now a P.H., C16 or earlier, C19 rear range, front altered in early C20. Timber frame, front half-timbered above red brick and rendered Ground floor. Red-brick rear extension. Steep old red tile roof. 2-storeys, cellar and attic, 4-windows long front facing W extending over carriageway at N end leading to yard. Internal gable chimney at S, and central chimney a quarter from N. A 4-bay framed structure with stair rising at rear of 2nd bay from S. The front has casement windows on the 1st floor with small panes in the head of each light. Large bracketed oriel windows flank the door up 2 steps. A gabled dormer rises over the eaves. Interior has exposed heavy flat joists and axial beams over lofty Ground floor (moulded beam to middle bay), elaborate late C17 straight stair with balusters, tall carved finials to newel posts and similar brackets on posts next to the stair, and a clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. Named The Horseshoes up to 1727.

Listing NGR: TL3626729451