The Bull Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1976. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
The Bull Hotel
- WRENN ID
- young-steeple-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1976
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Bull Hotel, 56, High Street, Royston, SG8 9AW
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 404
- Coordinates
- 52.04603, -0.02298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Hotel is a late 18th century or early 19th century building located on the east side of High Street. It features a front made of gault brick with a channelled ground floor. The roof is tiled and has an eaves cornice. The building is two storeys high and has six sash windows with glazing bars, which are set under flat arches made of cut bricks. However, two of the ground floor windows on the left have been altered to lattice casements. The left central entrance consists of a six-panel two-fold door, which is framed by an architrave surround in a double reveal, and has a segmentally arched outer arch made of channelled bricks. The rear elevation is constructed of red brick and includes a central Venetian window. Parts of the structure are believed to date back to the 16th century. This site has been an inn since 1540, and it served as a location for petty sessions until 1850.
Local climate
The Bull Hotel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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