The Bull Hotel, including stable courtyard to rear.

The Bull Hotel, with its attached stable courtyard, is a large Victorian inn built in a style intended to evoke the 17th century. The inn is constructed from limestone rubble with freestone dressings, featuring rough facings. It has a slate roof with raking gable parapets resting on kneelers, and decorative ball finials at the gable apexes. The building is arranged in an L-shape. The main part of the hotel comprises a double-depth, three-storey structure, while a full-height gabled wing extends to the rear (west). Adjoining this gabled wing are lofted tackrooms and servants’ quarters, which form one side of a U-shaped range of outbuildings to the rear. The opposite side of the outbuildings is a lofted stable range, connected to the tackrooms by a single-storey range of coach houses.

The main, north-facing front has four bays, with a projecting lateral chimney breast to the left, partly corbelled over the ground floor and bearing a weathered stone tablet at first floor level. The chimney has volute supports above an eaves band and triple stacks with moulded caps. Three gabled dormers are positioned along the roof, with the largest to the right of a two-storey, pedimented bay window. The entrance is in the second bay from the left, recessed and sheltered by a moulded label, above boarded double doors and a small, multi-paned, iron, semi-circular fanlight. Windows are small-paned casements set within freestone mullioned and transomed surrounds. First-floor windows have flat moulded labels. A continuous moulded label runs along the ground floor, rising in a slightly rounded arch above the entrance. A scrolled ironwork lamp bracket and an inn sign are positioned at first-floor level on the left side of the elevation.

The side elevations are similarly detailed. To the west (along Glanhwfa Road), a four-bay elevation features a lateral chimney at the far right (south) and a full-height staircase window with circular infill panels in the second bay from the left. The east-facing return elevation has two gables, with a central Jacobethan openwork timber porch with a finial, and a rectangular bay window on the ground floor to the left. The rear elevation is rendered on the first floor, with a splayed bay on the ground floor to the right, and timber dormers to the attics.

Behind the hotel, a U-plan outbuilding range creates a courtyard. The entrance is marked by simple gates decorated with a scrollwork design. The outbuildings are built of similar materials to the main hotel, with gabled slate roofs, raking gable parapets on kneelers, and small gable apex finials. The outbuildings have undergone alterations and modernisation. The former servants’ lodgings and tackrooms along Glanhwfa Road have gabled dormers to both front and rear, deep stone lintels, and timber casements. These are linked to an altered stable range (on the east side of the yard) by a lower range of coach houses.