The Bull Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Bull Public House
- WRENN ID
- lone-courtyard-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bull Public House, High Street, St. Ippolyts, SG4 7QG
- OS grid reference
- TL 187 270
- Coordinates
- 51.92939, -0.27379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Public House is a building that was originally a house, dating from the 17th century or earlier, and later adapted as a public house. It features a timber frame that is cased in plum brick with red dressings, which are now painted on the front and southern part of the building. The roof is steeply pitched with old red tiles, while the eastern part of the rear wing has a low-pitched slate roof.
This two-storey corner building faces west and includes a single-storey rear service wing on the southeast. It has a three-cell plan that was formerly roofed with a cross-gable over the parlour at the southern end, and there is a large projecting external chimney on the eastern side. A very large chimney on the northern gable has an open fireplace that spans the full width of the house.
At the rear of the central part of the building, there is a stair turret with front and rear doors. The western front features a plat-band and a black-painted plinth. There are four windows on the first floor, along with two blocked openings. The three windows on the ground floor have segmental arches, and the ground floor also includes flush two-light casement windows with small panes and external louvred shutters. A renewed eight-panel door is set in a heavy frame and accessed by two steps. Additionally, there is a wrought iron sign at the right-hand end of the front.
Local climate
The Bull Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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