13A,15 AND 15A, BULL PLAIN

HERTFORD

TL3212NE BULL PLAIN 817-1/17/16 (West side) Nos.13A, 15 AND 15A

GV II

Former inn, now shops with offices above. C16 and C17, with C20 alterations. Timber-framed, plastered, with old tiled roof hipped at north end, and with rear outshot at higher level with hipped end rising above main ridge line, with brick chimneystack with oversailing courses in front. EXTERIOR: first floor has 1 modern steel casement window at left, and 3 early C20 mullion and transom wood casements, 3 light: 2 light: 3 light. Ground floor of No.13 has modern timber arcaded shopfront with moulded 'gothic' headed 4-light window and half-glazed door at left. Wide early C20 shopfront to No.15, which cuts across former jetty, with central recessed doorway, plate glass display windows with canted sides, moulded mullions and transoms and slim upper lights. Pilasters at left and right with cut consoles with carved semicircular tops, canted fascia with blind box above. Recessed entrance to upper floor, No.15a, at extreme right. INTERIOR: has exposed posts and beams at first-floor level indicating a 4 or 5 bay structure, with 2 central bays which are possibly a remnant of a much altered hall house. Recently exposed C17 studwork with spiked assembly includes a stud with older peg holes. The southern end of the building is ceiled approximately at collar level. Roof timbers much renewed but with halved and pegged rafters at south end, carpenters' assembly marks, and later supplementary side purlins. Ground floor opened out, particularly in No.13. HISTORICAL NOTE: this building is the site of the Bull Inn from which Bull Plain takes its name. The building was extensively remodelled as a public house in the late C19, and again 1910 when the major ground floor shop was created. (Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 29).

Listing NGR: TL3262612681