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Bulls Head
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Picture source: Hania
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The Bulls Head was situated at 73 High Street. The building dates from the
16th century and is
grade-II* listed. Since closing as a pub it has been in
retail use. |
Source: Kevin Timbrell-Smith |
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Listed
building details: |
Formerly known as: No.75 (part) HIGH STREET. Formerly known as: Bull's Head
Inn HIGH STREET. House, formerly part of No.75 (qv), public house, now
offices and shop. Early C16, remodelled front mid C19, rear outshut rebuilt
C20, and c1970 shop front. Rendered with brick gable stack and tiled roof.
Single-depth plan with former great chamber to first floor and C20 rear
outshut and wing. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Cornice and C20
parapet; mid C20 shop front, cambered heads to horned plate-glass
first-floor sashes. Blocked former doorway to No.75 in through passage, and
2 hipped dormers. INTERIOR: retains original early C16 five-bay roof
extending over No.75 (qv), with straight collars and tie beams, and
alternate curved wind braces on each side of the dormers. Enriched early C17
first-floor plaster ceiling with a geometrical pattern of moulded ribs and
foliate bosses, roses and formal sprays of fruit and foliage, and an
arabesque frieze, restored c1990. Stone 3-centre-arched right-hand fireplace
with double cyma moulding and moulded stops, with herring bone brick back.
Left-hand winder stair with stick balusters to the attic. A much altered
exterior conceals an interior with rare surviving C17 plasterwork of
considerable interest. |
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Picture source: Hania
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