The Bull Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Inn.

The Bull Inn

WRENN ID
winding-loggia-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 1987
Type
Inn
Address
The Bull Inn, Swallowfield Road, Arborfield and Newland
OS grid reference
SU 761 670
Coordinates
51.39759, -0.90711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bull Inn is an inn that dates back to the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features a combination of timber framing with thin timbers and painted brick infill, as well as sections of painted brick. It has an old tile roof that includes a gable, half hip, and two different ridge heights. The structure is arranged in a T-plan with five framed bays on the front and a single-storey lean-to extension from the 20th century at the rear.

The inn is two storeys tall and has a ridge stack. The entrance front shows that the right-hand part has brick dentil eaves and three bays of 19th-century casements, which include two-light and three-light windows on both the ground and first floors. To the right of the left window, there is a late 19th-century gabled entrance porch. The left-hand part of the building is slightly lower and also features dentilled eaves, with a two-light 19th-century casement on the first floor, a three-light casement on the ground floor, and a small two-light fixed window to the left of the latter.

Inside, the principal joists on the ground floor are exposed and feature chamfers with stopped ends.

Local climate

The Bull Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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