The One Bull Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Public house.

The One Bull Public House

WRENN ID
ghost-vault-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1972
Type
Public house
Address
The One Bull Public House, 25 and 25a, Angel Hill, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 855 642
Coordinates
52.24558, 0.71667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The One Bull Public House is a public house with a core dating from the 16th century, featuring a late 18th-century exterior and extensive modernizations from the 20th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a roof covered in 20th-century plain tiles. The building has two storeys and cellars, with a roof that is on two levels; the left side is higher than the right. There is an internal chimney-stack between the two sections, made of old red brick with a rebuilt top.

The façade has a four-window range with 16-pane sash windows in flush cased frames, and two similar windows on the ground floor. The entrance is off-centre and features plain pilasters and a heavy flat pediment supported by console brackets, with a 20th-century glazed door. To the left, a former entry into a rear yard has been infilled in the late 20th century with recessed double doors.

Inside, the pub has been heavily restored, with many internal partitions removed and few original timbers remaining. One ground-floor beam has ogee-moulding. There is a glazed roof over the former entry and rear yard, and an inn gallery in the rear range features replacement Edwardian balusters in Jacobean style, now behind a glazed screen. The upper rooms to the right of the chimney-stack have exposed fragments of timbering, none of which predates the 18th century, and the roof in this area has been renewed. Additionally, there is a long tunnel vault beneath the former entry and yard, oriented at right angles to the street, lined with 19th-century brick.

Local climate

The One 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 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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