The Black Bull

NORTHALLERTON HIGH STREET SE 3693-3793 (east side) 7/22 Nos 100 and 101 (The Black Bull) 9.12.69 (formerly listed as No 100 (premises occupied by Merioncraft) and No 101 (The Black Bull Inn)) GV II Coaching inn, now inn and shop. Mid-late C18 with later alterations. Brown brick: in English garden wall bond, partly painted; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 7 bays; 3 rear wings. No 100 occupies the first two bays and is of painted brick, with C20 shop front on ground floor, 4-pane sash windows on first floor and smaller 4- pane sashes with projecting sills on second floor. No 101, ground floor: in 3rd bay, rusticated quoined segmental-arched carriage opening, in 5th bay, door of 6 fielded panels below blind overlight in ashlar surround with pediment on cavetto brackets, fluted frieze with paterae, flanked by canted bay windows with 4-pane sashes and flat lead roofs. First floor: 4-pane sash windows with projecting ashlar sills and flat arches. Second-floor band of two alternate courses of projecting bricks. Second floor: smaller 4-pane sash windows with projecting ashlar sills, their lintels interrupted by dentil eaves band. Decorative cast-iron rainwater head between 2nd and 3rd bays. Tall brick stacks at ends and between 3rd and 4th bays. The building has three rear wings, the southernmost very long. This coaching inn received the first London to Edinburgh mail coach in 1785.

Listing NGR: SE3690593968