The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn
- WRENN ID
- rooted-sandstone-hawthorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn, High Street, DA1 1DU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 541 740
- Coordinates
- 51.44423, 0.21707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn is a former large coaching inn located on the London to Canterbury and Dover road, built in 1703. The building has two storeys and attics. The ground floor is made of painted brick with a tiled base, while the upper part is faced with grey bricks, which have been renewed, and features red brick window dressings and quoins. The roof is tiled and includes three dormers, with a parapet made of grey bricks and a wooden modillion cornice. There are nine sashes with intact glazing bars.
In the centre of the ground floor, there is a carriage entrance leading to the hotel yard, flanked by royal cartouches on each side. To the left of the carriage entrance are Tuscan columns, and the pub front dates from the 18th century. The building extends back into two long wings separated by the hotel yard, which has galleries on each side on the first floor. The yard is now glazed over and features a galleried courtyard, while the saloon bar includes a Regency bay window.
Local climate
The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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