Listed Building record MDO13613 - The Bull Inn, Common Lane, The Bridge, Sturminster Newton

A cottage thought to have been built in the seventeenth century, with nineteenth and twentieth century additions and alterations, now an inn. Rubble, brick and rendered walls, hipped thatched roof with central brick stack. End brick stacks probably later additions.

The Bull Inn. The nucleus of the building is an L-shaped 3-roomed cottage, probably of the C17th. <1> <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 283 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(49) THE BULL INN (78581355), 480 yds. S.W. of (1), is single-storied with attics and has rendered walls and thatched roofs. The stable range to the N. has rubble walls. There are many modern additions in brick, and the stables are of the 19th century, but the nucleus of the building is an L-shaped three-roomed cottage, probably of the 17th century. Inside, one room contains an open fireplace with chamfered jambs and bressummer, and a heavy ceiling beam with deep chamfers. To the N. of the fireplace is a newel staircase with solid timber steps. An attic chamber has exposed wind-braces.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1980s, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch six (Map). SDO13933.

(ST78581355) Bull Inn [NAT]

<3> DOE (HHR), 1983, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District (Scheduling record). SDO17556.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888668 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 3:14PM