The Bull Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. Inn. 9 related planning applications.
The Bull Hotel
- WRENN ID
- ragged-storey-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Bull Hotel, the Headlands, Downton, SP5 3HL
- OS grid reference
- SU 170 214
- Coordinates
- 50.99225, -1.75777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Hotel is an inn dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with tiled roofs and brick stacks. The building features a 5-bay central range, a converted stable block to the right, and rear wings. The main range is two stories high with five windows, while the right side includes a single storey and attic range.
The entrance is marked by a 19th-century half-glazed door set in a beaded case, topped with a flat wooden hood supported by finely carved console brackets. To the left and right of the door are canted bays with 4-pane sash windows. The right side has two 3-light casements and four 9-pane sashes, all featuring segmental heads. The first floor has a 3-brick plat band and includes two 2-light and two 3-light casements, along with one blind window. There are also two dormers on the right, one louvred and one with a 2-light casement. The main range has four hipped dormers with cast-iron latticed casements.
To the left, there is a 19th-century attached bay with a through cart-entry, featuring double planked doors with strap hinges and canted bay windows on both floors. The right range has coped tile verges. At the rear left is the converted stable block, which also has a tiled roof. The main range includes an outshut and two attached two-storey wings with 2-light casements.
Inside, the hotel has chamfered beams with step and run-out stops. A late 18th-century fireplace features a fluted frieze and beaded surround. A disc from the Sun Insurance Company is displayed on the front of the building. The Bull Hotel has been recorded as an inn since 1726.
Local climate
The Bull Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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