Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
22/12/1989
Date of Amendment
22/12/1989
Name of Property
Bull Inn PH (including Caesar Hughes)
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
Detached to the right, near the crossroads.
History
Mid C19 late Georgian style with Art Nouveau alterations dated 1908.
Exterior
3-storey 3-window painted roughcast front with cill bands; slate roof and roughcast and brick chimney stacks, boarded eaves. Small pane sash windows; 12-pane to 2nd floor and cambered heads to 1st floor with stopped labels - one window has had some glazing bars removed; brick jambs. Splayed oriel to left (contemporary with 1908 alterations) with dentil cornice, coloured glass and small pane sash glazing. Public House frontage added to left in 1908 in glazed terracotta. Modern shop front to right.
Interior
Convex tile entablature with raised lettering. The bracket of the oriel cuts across this and is linked to the bulls head keystone over the bar window; (LLB monogram). Round arch headed openings with hoodmoulds and pilasters; fluted keystones over recessed doorways with fanlight over. Flat volutes below window cill and coloured festoons; coloured foliage to the spandrels. To the right is a similar round arch opening with the lettering 'stabling' to the cornice; boarded doors open onto carriage entry.
Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring listed items in Castle Street.
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