Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE BULL PLAIN
817-1/17/16 (West side)
Nos.13A, 15 AND 15A

GV II

Former inn, now shops with offices above. C16 and C17, with
C20 alterations. Timber-framed, plastered, with old tiled roof
hipped at north end, and with rear outshot at higher level
with hipped end rising above main ridge line, with brick
chimneystack with oversailing courses in front.
EXTERIOR: first floor has 1 modern steel casement window at
left, and 3 early C20 mullion and transom wood casements, 3
light: 2 light: 3 light. Ground floor of No.13 has modern
timber arcaded shopfront with moulded 'gothic' headed 4-light
window and half-glazed door at left. Wide early C20 shopfront
to No.15, which cuts across former jetty, with central
recessed doorway, plate glass display windows with canted
sides, moulded mullions and transoms and slim upper lights.
Pilasters at left and right with cut consoles with carved
semicircular tops, canted fascia with blind box above.
Recessed entrance to upper floor, No.15a, at extreme right.
INTERIOR: has exposed posts and beams at first-floor level
indicating a 4 or 5 bay structure, with 2 central bays which
are possibly a remnant of a much altered hall house. Recently
exposed C17 studwork with spiked assembly includes a stud with
older peg holes. The southern end of the building is ceiled
approximately at collar level. Roof timbers much renewed but
with halved and pegged rafters at south end, carpenters'
assembly marks, and later supplementary side purlins. Ground
floor opened out, particularly in No.13.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building is the site of the Bull Inn
from which Bull Plain takes its name. The building was
extensively remodelled as a public house in the late C19, and
again 1910 when the major ground floor shop was created.
(Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 29).

Listing NGR: TL3262612681

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26682794

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)