The Bull Hotel

The Bull Hotel is a coaching inn with a medieval core, largely rebuilt around 1620 and refronted around 1715 for William Tash. The interior was altered in the early 20th century. The building suffered a fire in 1982 but was subsequently restored. It features a brick front with ashlar dressings and a ground floor, standing three storeys high with four bays. The red and blue bricks have rubbed brick window jambs and voussoirs, with stone imposts and keys. Ashlar full-height pilasters with egg and dart caps, a heavy moulded cornice, and a brick parapet matching the front are notable elements, along with four blind panels. The ground floor has three glazing-bar sash windows with cock beads and keys, with the two right-hand windows and the door to the right set in an ashlar break over the cellar. There are outer doors and a coachway to the left, featuring a staff-mould to a square head with a double key and brackets supporting a wooden hood. A flagged passage and alley lead to a two-storey rear wing with a 17th-century timber frame at the front, masking a gallery that is closed at the east end by a cross building, which also has a carriageway underneath. A 19th-century two-storey stables wing continues beyond. Inside, the ground floor front room is raised on a cellar and has two Tudor-arched fireplaces. There are additional Tudor-arched fireplaces in the first and second floor front rooms, with ball and bottle stops on the first floor jambs. A cross-beamed room is located at the rear, and the gabled wing above the rear of the front carriageway features windbraces.