The Bull Inn is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1953. Public house. 8 related planning applications.
The Bull Inn
- WRENN ID
- sheer-vestry-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1953
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bull Inn, High Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8BS
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 141
- Coordinates
- 51.81334, -0.29324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Inn is a public house with a timber frame dating back to the 16th century, with additions from the 17th and 18th centuries, and 20th-century rear extensions. The building features exposed box framing with plaster infill and has steeply pitched plain tile roofs. It stands two storeys high with a long, curving facade that bends away from the road to the north, which includes sections that were formerly separate cottages from the 17th and 18th centuries. The main block has a red brick plinth and a tall 17th-century chimney stack located at the center and north end, the latter of which is connected to a tumbled brick gable end. The structure consists of six bays of framing and has glazing bar casements. There is an early 19th-century door near the south end, framed with an architrave and topped with a bracketed hood. At the south end, there is a large rear cross wing featuring a tall 17th-century red brick lateral chimney stack on the north wall. Additionally, at the rear center of the main block, there is a small two-storey gabled extension with a clasped purlin roof, likely from the late 17th century. The northern extensions have glazing bar casements and tall red brick bases, with some exposed 18th-century framing visible at the northeast end.
Local climate
The Bull Inn 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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