The Old Bull And Bush

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SU 8168 NW 18/24

WOKINGHAM MARKET PLACE (north side) No.37 (The former Bush Hotel, including Nos. 1-10 Bush Walk)

(formerly listed as No.37 (The Old Bull and Bush, including Nos. 1-10 Bush Walk) previously listed as The Bush Hotel)

12.11.51

G.V. II Former inn, now shops. Late C15, extended C17, extended and altered late C18, C19 and C20. Part timber framed, part painted brick, part tile hung; slate roof over front section, old tile gabled roofs at rear. U-plan; front section probably four framed bays originally, with yard entry second bay from left and now covered in. Nine framed bays in eastern rear wing, the middle three bays the former hall, and three framed bays in western rear wing, with brick former stables on end. Front section three storeys and cellar, rear wings one and half and two storeys.

Road front: three bays. Sash windows with glazing bars on tile hung upper floors. Two large flanking chimneys. Ground floor of rusticated brick piers between large C20 windows with glazing bars, and supporting frieze and dentilled cornice. Yard entry formerly in centre bay, now to left.

Rear wings: on the west two framed bays of two storeys with thin framing on first floor and painted brick infill, two- and three- light C19 casements; central chimney on ridge. On the right and at end of this one and half storeys painted brick former stables with two gabled hay loading bays breaking eaves with planked doors. C20, two-light metal casements on ground floor. On the east two storey wing of timber framed bays rendered and painted. Two tall chimneys on rear slope. Three large, early C19 sash windows with glazing bars on ground floor; C19 irregular two-light casements on first floor.

Interior: most of remaining timber frame visible in eastern wing, with heavy beams and joists, jowled posts and arch braces. Sooted roof timbers in hall section. A two cell cellar probably C15 in part under front section partly of brick and conglomerate, with arched recesses under chimney and pointed niche in north wall.

Listing NGR: SU8123268584