The Bull Hotel

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) The Bull Hotel 7/80 12.9.55

GV II*

Coaching inn; mediaeval core; largely rebuilt c.1620; refronted c.1715 for William Tash and interior altered early C20. Burnt 1982, and subsequent restoration. Brick front, ashlar dressings and ground floor. 3 storeys: 4 bays. Red and blue bricks with rubbed brick window jambs and voussoirs with stone imposts and keys, ashlar full-height pilasters with egg and dart caps, heavy moulded cornice, brick parapet matching front, 4 blind panels. 3 windows on ground floor, glazing-bar sashes, with cock beads and keys, the 2 right-hand windows and the door to right in ashlar break over cellar. Outer doors. Coachway to left: staff-mould to square head with double key, brackets to wooden hood. Flagged passage and alley. 2- storey rear wing with C17 timber-frame to front masking gallery, closed at East end by Cross building also with carriageway under; C19 2-storey stables wing continues beyond. Interior: Ground floor front room raised on cellar and has two Tudor- arched fireplaces; further Tudor-arched fireplaces to 1st and 2nd floor front rooms, with ball and bottle stops to 1st floor jambs; cross-beamed room to rear; gabled wing above rear of front carriageway has windbraces. See Michael Laithwaite in Prespectives in Urban History (1973 ed Everitt).

Listing NGR: SP2517212149