The Bull Hotel

1. 5135 HIGH STREET (North -East Side) Stony Stratford Nos 64 and 66 (The Bull Hotel) SP 7840 1/30 12.6.55.

II* GV

1. late C18 3 storey diapered brick house with slate roof, deep eaves and cornice. 5 windows, glazing bar sashes with painted plaster heads and keys, 3 light windows at both ends of 1st floor. No 66 has small shop front - 3 pilasters for door and wide window, dentil cornice to fascia. Cambered archway to yard, south of which is hotel entrance with large squat sash windows at both sides with multiple glazing bars (late). Wooden doorcase of 2 half columns supporting an entablature with large cornice (billets and bead and reel). Within there is a reeded architrave and. deep panelled reveals and soffit and panelled door. Contewmwu wrought iron overthrow of magnificent dimensions. Entirely rivetted; coiled ends. Supporting sign of a white shorthorn bull. Range of sheds and stables to north-east included, as also wing to north-west which retains Norwich Union fire insurance mark. High pitched tiled roofs. These outbuildings continue to Vicarage Road, separated by a large rebuilt shed. With the gabled brick ranges at the rear of No 68 High Street, also on Vicarage Road, they form a pleasant courtyard of mixed stone and brick. The rivalry between the Cock and Bull Hotels in coaching days is said to be the origin of the metaphor.

Nos 62 to 86 (even) including Nos 66A 70A, and 86A, Nos 88 to 106 (even) and the former St Anthony Franciscan Preoaratory School form a group.

Listing NGR: SP7871640500