The Bull Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Bull Public House
- WRENN ID
- small-plaster-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bull Public House, Barnet Road, London Colney, AL2 1QU
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 036
- Coordinates
- 51.71923, -0.28868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Public House is a public house dating from the mid-16th century, with the possibility of an earlier core. It features a timber frame with plastered walls and exposed framing on the eastern gable end. The building has a steeply pitched plain tile roof and a canted plan, with three one-glazing bar casements. It stands two storeys tall, with the left side of the ground floor showcasing large and small canted sash window bays from around 1900, which are adorned with fluted pilasters and moulded cornices. There is a door on the left side. An external stack from the 17th to 18th century is located on the eastern wall, where the exposed framing is closely studded over two floors; a projecting collar purlin indicates that there may have been an earlier roof. At the rear, there is a tall two-storey range, likely built around 1800, with one section featuring a gable end and the other a hipped roof.
Local climate
The Bull Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 6 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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