The Bull Public House

The Bull Public House is a public house located on High Street in Watton-at-Stone. It dates from the early to mid-16th century and was remodelled and extended in the early 19th century, with further alterations in the late 19th century. The building features a timber frame, with parts rebuilt and extended in brick, and is stuccoed to resemble ashlar, with some weatherboarding. The roofs are covered with slate and some tiles.

Originally designed as a double-ended hall house, it has been extended at the rear and now stands at two storeys. The hall range is set back and includes a single-storey late 19th-century projecting screen with central double doors and a fanlight, flanked by cross casements that have shaped corners, topped with a coped parapet. The first floor has a flush moulded frame tripartite sash window. The crosswings are deeply jettied and feature tripartite sashes in flush moulded frames, with the ground floors weatherboarded. The eaves soffit of the hall and the inner returns of the wings are panelled, and the original steep outer pitches of the roof are tiled.

On the left end, there is an 18th-century internal stack, and another stack is located in the hall range towards the right end in the front pitch. At the rear, there is an early 19th-century range with a shallow pitched roof and external stacks on both ends. A 20th-century lean-to outshut is present on the left end. The early 19th-century rear elevation includes some ground floor weatherboarding, two entrances towards the centre, and a six-light mullion and transom small pane casement. The first floor has four glazing bar sashes with flush moulded frames and boxed eaves.

Inside, the exposed framing has largely been reset, and there is a 16th-century wave moulded axial binding beam. The cellar features an arched doorway and early ovolo moulded two and three-light window frames. The first floor has not been inspected.