The Bull Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Bull Public House
- WRENN ID
- last-garret-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bull Public House, 28, High Street, Offley, SG5 3AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 270
- Coordinates
- 51.92996, -0.33969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Public House is a house, dating to around 1700, with an additional north-west wing and stable added in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond with random blue bricks; the front is roughcast and painted on the south end. The north-west wing is weatherboarded, and all have steep red tile roofs. The original plan consisted of two rooms, two storeys and attics, with end chimneys and a central entrance, set back from the road and facing east.
The front facade has gable parapets with raking brick courses under decorative 19th-century ridge tiles, a flat-topped dormer in the roof, three two-light casement windows to the first floor, and two three-light transomed casement windows to the ground floor, with a platband stepping up over the central door. A small, gabled, roughcast and tiled porch is positioned at the centre. Shallow vertical recesses sit between shallow square chimney shafts. A single-storey gabled extension is set back to the north end, and a slated lean-to extends to the rear. The north-west rear wing has two storeys and two windows, with internal chimneys at each gable, and a lower stable at the west end.
Inside, the main range contains two rooms, with access to the south end of the north room. There are axial chamfered beams with run-out stops, and an original fireplace with canted corners survives in the south room, along with a staircase.
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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