The Bull Hotel

The Bull Hotel is an inn that likely dates back to the late 16th century and was recorded as an inn by the mid-17th century. It was enlarged to the north in the early 18th century and again in the later 18th or early 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone, featuring large, finely finished flush quoins and a band on the left side that marks the earliest section. The front has a mostly slate roof, while the right-hand end has stone slate, and the main part of the rear roof has artificial stone slates. The attached outbuildings have slate roofs and there are scattered brick stacks.

The hotel has a long single front range with a rear wing to the right, an infilled wing in the center, and outbuildings, with former stables to the left. It is mostly two storeys and has an attic. The oldest part on the left was originally two storeys and is at a lower level than the adjoining section. It features a central chamfered stone Tudor archway with a renewed plank door and flanking small single lights with splayed reveals. Above, there are two 12-pane sash windows with original thick glazing bars, likely from the 17th century, and a curved wall of a newel stair to the right with a small 6-pane light, ending at a tooled stone band. The second floor has been raised, featuring two later 12-pane sashes.

The central section has four gabled dormers through the eaves with 6-pane sashes, and four early 12-pane sashes on the first floor with thick glazing bars. There are two large canted bays on the ground floor, probably from the late 18th or early 19th century, with sashes arranged as 8/16/8 panes on the left and 8/12/8 panes on the right. A central shallow, wide hipped porch with glazed double doors is likely from the 20th century. To the right, there is a section that may have originally been a separate house, now incorporated, featuring two gabled dormers on the eaves and a central dormer with a fixed 12-pane light. The dormers have paired casements, and there are two 12-pane sashes on the first floor. An early 20th-century square bay is located on the right side of the ground floor, along with a small 12-pane window that probably replaced a former doorway on the left.

Inside, the hotel retains many original chamfered beams and chamfered joists on the ground floor, and the newel stair still exists.