The Bull and Chequers is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Bull and Chequers
- WRENN ID
- winding-tracery-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bull and Chequers, Church Road, Woodley, RG5 4QP
- OS grid reference
- SU 767 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45542, -0.89633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull and Chequers is a public house that dates back to the 18th century and has been altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of brick and features an old tile half hipped roof. The building has two storeys and a cellar.
On the entrance front, there is a brick string course at the first floor level. A chimney is located to the left of the centre on the ridge, and there is a 19th-century single storey extension on the right side. The facade has three irregular bays, with two bays on the right containing 19th-century three-light wood casement windows that have shutters. The ground floor windows have segmental heads, while there is one upper sash window with glazing bars on the left. The entrance features a six-panelled door that is located under a flat hood, positioned between the two right-hand windows.
Local climate
The Bull and Chequers 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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