The Bull Public House

TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN HIGH STREET (North side) Whitwell

12/141 The Bull P.H. (formerly listed as 27.5.68 "The Bull Inn")

GV II

Inn, now a public house. Early C17, mentioned as the Bull Inn 1675, late C17 brick rear wing at NW, alterations and E extension 1814 when bought by Henry Crabb, brewer of Hitchin. Timber frame roughcast with steep red tile roof, painted brick extensions, that at E with hipped roof. A tall 2-storeys and attics building facing S, fronting the street, with jetties at 2 levels. 2 canted oriel windows to 1st floor step out to support gabled dormers above the eaves with 2-light leaded casements. Transomed windows to ground floor flanking central door. Foliated bracket at E end of jetty. Inn Sign carried by very large gallows-like oak bracket on front with cusped brace. Old prints show a sign on a beam with end posts spanning the road. Very large internal chimney near E end with axial shaft above roof with 3 flues. Projecting large W gable chimney with 2 square shafts set diagonally. Long single-storey and cellar wing at rear. Vast catslide rear roofslope with gabled stair turret in middle. Exposed timbers inside and large open fireplace at E. (Branch Johnson (1962)109: Pevsner (1977)405).

Listing NGR: TL1859721076