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Great Offley > The Bull
The Bull
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Date of photo: 1996 |
Picture source: Michael Croxford |
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The Bull was situated on the High
Street. This grade-II listed pub has
now been converted to a private house. |
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Listed
building details: |
House, now a public house. Circa
1700, N-W wing and stable early C19. Red brick in Flemish-bond with random
blue bricks, front roughcast, S end painted. Stable and NW wing dark
weatherboarded. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-cells, 2 storeys and attics,
end chimneys and central entrance plan house, set back from road and facing
E. Front has gable parapets with raking brick courses under fancy C19 ridge
tiles, a flat-topped dormer on roofslope, 3 2-lights casement windows to 1st
floor, 2 3-light transomed casement windows to ground floor and plat-band
stepping up over central door. Small gabled roughcast and tiled porch.
Internal gable chimney each end, larger at S, with shallow vertical recess
between square shafts. Single-storey gabled extension to
N end set back and slated lean-to to rear. 2-storeys 2 windows wide NW rear
wing with internal chimneys at each gable and lower small stable at W end.
Interior has 2 rooms to main range with entrance into S end of N room. Axial
chamfered beams with ogee stops, stair rising in S room and surviving
original fireplace there with canted rear corners. |
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