Bull Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1989. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
Bull Inn
- WRENN ID
- shifting-remnant-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1989
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Bull Inn, the Green, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 809 328
- Coordinates
- 51.06639, 0.58169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Inn is an inn built around 1608, with alterations and extensions made in the early 19th century and again by George Devey around 1880. The main structure is timber-framed, faced with red brick on the ground floor and tile hung on the first floor, featuring a pebbledashed gable. The right side elevation is also tile hung, and the building has a tiled roof. It stands two storeys high, with three windows on the front and two on the side.
The front elevation includes one hipped dormer and a right side gable with a wooden bargeboard supported by wooden brackets, which contains a casement window with leaded light. The ground floor has three casement windows and a built-out projection with a tiled roof, featuring late 19th-century 'chinoiserie' type glazing and a front entrance. The right side elevation has a five-sided extension at the corner, with a first-floor triple casement window and ground floor glazing consisting of eleven lights in 'chinoiserie' style. There is also a right side hipped dormer. The first floor features a three-light 19th-century oriel window and a five-light 'chinoiserie' glazed oriel window from the late 19th century.
At the rear, there is a two-storey early 19th-century wing made of diaper brickwork, topped with a hipped tiled roof and featuring one and two windows, which was likely originally a detached outbuilding. Inside the bar, there is a chamfered spine beam and joists with lambs' tongue stops, as well as a large inglenook fireplace that includes two gabled salt niches and integral seats. RIBA drawings exist for the additions made by Devey.
Local climate
Bull Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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