4912

 

II  

Designated  

19/10/1951  

13/12/2001  

Ye Olde Bulls Head PH, Including Outbuildings Adjoining to the Rear  

 

Gwynedd  

Bala  

 

 

292557  

335903  

SE  

On the street-line.  

Commercial  

 

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.  

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.  

Plain modern interiors, though the left-hand bar retains some resited stoped-chamfered beams of C17 character.  

Listed as an historic inn with probable late C17 origins retaining good late Georgian character and rare surviving ancilliary range to the rear.