Description

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0830 BEVERLEY ROAD
680-1/14/63 (East side)
The Bull Public House

GV II

Public house. 1903. By Freeman, Son & Gaskell, with mid and
late C20 alterations. Red brick with terrracotta clad ground
floor, terracotta dressings and hipped plain tile roof with
coped side wall stack. Renaissance revival style. Moulded sill
bands, frieze and cornice. 3 storeys; 3x4 windows. Windows are
mainly wooden cross casements, those to the ground floor
partly reglazed. All have pilastered surrounds, and those to
the upper floors have corbelled sills.
Main front has a small round-arched central window with broken
pediment, flanked by single larger elliptical-arched windows
with swan-neck pediments. At the corner, to left, a
wrought-iron bracket carrying a gilt bull. Above, 2 pedimented
round-arched windows set in an elaborate shaped gable with
obelisk finials and a central cartouche inscribed "Bull Inn".
Below, a central round-arched doorway with pilasters, under an
elaborate scrolled keystone with festoons of leaves and a ball
finial, which forms a centrepiece to the ground floor cornice.
On either side, a large elliptical-arched window with
hoodmould and keystone.
Left front, to Stepney Street, has similar fenestration on the
first floor plus an additional bay to left with a pair of
single light round-arched windows under a pediment. Above,
fenestration and gable similar to the Beverley Road front.
Below, a single round-arched doorway under an elaborate
keystone, flanked to left by a larger elliptical-arched double
doorway. To right, 2 elliptical-arched windows. Beyond, to
left, a 2-storey block with coped facing gable and single
elliptical-arched window.
INTERIOR has front bar refitted mid C20 and first floor dining
room with moulded cornice and panelled cross beam ceiling and
moulded window surrounds. Dogleg wooden stair with winders,
spindle balusters and ramped scrolled handrail.
(1894 M 3485).

Listing NGR: TA0895330405

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492075

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