Description

TL 5446
15/154

LINTON
HIGH STREET (Southeast Side)
Nos. 40 and 42 (Bull House)

(Formerly listed as Nos 40, 42 and 44)

22.11.67 GV
II
House, formerly the Bull Inn, now two dwellings. c.1700. Red brick, painted front and side elevations, timber-framed and plastered gables to rear. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with attics and cellars, irregular double pile plan with roof hipped to street and forming three parallel gables to rear. Moulded wooden eaves cornice, band between floors raised over former staircase window in rear elevation and plinth. Ridge stack to left of centre, side stack to right hand and two rear stacks. Symmetrical facade of five 'bays'. Six-panelled door with wooden doorcase, four flush-framed twelve-paned hung sash windows and five similar first floor windows. There were formerly three hipped dormer windows. The Black Bull, recorded in 1694 and where the Turnpike Trustees met in 1767, became one of the first private schools in Linton in 1777.

Palmer, M W The Antiquities of Linton. 1913
Stevens, R L Linton, P.C. Pub. p35 1982
V.C.H. Vol. VI, p83
R.C.H.M. Report 1951
Millicent and Paris Maps. Pembroke College

Listing NGR: TL5600546740

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456239

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)