Bull Court House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Bull Court House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-rafter-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bull Court House, Barnstaple, EX31 1AS
- OS grid reference
- SS 558 333
- Coordinates
- 51.0815, -4.05932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bull Court House is a residential apartment building that was originally a fellmonger’s premises, constructed around 1867 and converted into apartments in the early 21st century. The building does not include the northern extension known as Bowden House.
The structure is made of red brick with timber weatherboarded walls and has a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan and is oriented east to west.
The exterior of Bull Court House features three storeys and three bays running east to west, defined by red-brick piers with 21st-century horizontal timber weatherboarding between them. Each storey has a protruding brick band between the brick piers. The north elevation faces a courtyard set back from Bull Court, with 21st-century entrances to the apartments on the ground floor and a through carriageway to the right. Above this carriageway is a 21st-century timber weatherboarded balcony. The first floor has two sets of 21st-century French doors leading onto the balcony, with 21st-century timber casements above on the second floor. The east and west elevations are one bay wide and blind, with rendered stonework on the ground floor of the west side. The south elevation features 21st-century casements on the upper storey.
Inside, Bull Court House was converted into apartments in the early 21st century. Some of the roof structure appears to have survived, but there are few internal features of interest visible.
Local climate
Bull Court House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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