The Black Bull

The Black Bull is a coaching inn, now serving as an inn and shop, built in the mid to late 18th century with later alterations. It features brown brick in English garden wall bond, partly painted, and has a Welsh slate roof. The building stands three stories high and has seven bays, along with three rear wings.

No. 100 occupies the first two bays and is made of painted brick, showcasing a 20th-century shop front on the ground floor, four-pane sash windows on the first floor, and smaller four-pane sashes with projecting sills on the second floor.

No. 101 has a ground floor that includes a rusticated quoined segmental-arched carriage opening in the third bay, and in the fifth bay, there is a door with six fielded panels beneath a blind overlight, framed in an ashlar surround with a pediment on cavetto brackets. This section also features a fluted frieze with paterae, flanked by canted bay windows that have four-pane sashes and flat lead roofs. The first floor contains four-pane sash windows with projecting ashlar sills and flat arches, while the second floor has a band of two alternate courses of projecting bricks and smaller four-pane sash windows with projecting ashlar sills, their lintels interrupted by a dentil eaves band. A decorative cast-iron rainwater head is located between the second and third bays. The building is capped with tall brick stacks at both ends and between the third and fourth bays.

The Black Bull has three rear wings, with the southernmost being particularly long. Notably, this coaching inn received the first London to Edinburgh mail coach in 1785.