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.
Summary Description
Reference Number
4912
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1951
Date of Amendment
13/12/2001
Name of Property
Ye Olde Bulls Head PH, Including Outbuildings Adjoining to the Rear
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bala
Town
Locality
Easting
292557
Northing
335903
Street Side
SE
Location
On the street-line.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Historic inn, probably of late C17 origin; an ex-situ wooden date plaque survives within bearing the date 1692 ad the initials `T.H.E.' The inn was given a new facade probably in the late C18; the present windows are second-half C19 sashes to the first floor and modern sash simulations to the ground and second floor.
Exterior
Large inn of two-and-a-half storeys with 9-bay near-symmetrical facade. Modern render to earlier rubble stone, as revealed at the rear; slated roof, hipped at the sides, and with large rubble flanking stacks. The entrance is to the centre bay and has a modern, part-glazed door and a later slated open porch on cast-iron columns. Square-headed passage-way to the far L bay, giving access to the rear. The first floor windows retain C19 12-pane horned sashes, whilst those to the ground floor and the 5 gabled dormers are modern faux sash windows; all openings have plain stucco surrounds typical of c.1900.
To the rear are lower, later gabled additions, including (advanced to the R) a former stable block of whitened rubble. This has a slated roof with simple bargeboards and a boarded loft door to the (rendered) gable; stable entrances to the R (NE) side, with boarded windows and 3 loft openings under the eaves.
Interior
Plain modern interiors, though the left-hand bar retains some resited stoped-chamfered beams of C17 character.
Reason for designation
Listed as an historic inn with probable late C17 origins retaining good late Georgian character and rare surviving ancilliary range to the rear.
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