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PRESTON

SD5329NE FRIARGATE
941-1/9/135 (South side)
27/09/79 No.35
The Old Black Bull PH
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIARGATE
No.35
Old Black Bull Hotel)

II

Public house. c.1900. Brick with facing of green glazed
terracotta at ground floor and applied black-and-white
"half-timbering" above, slate roof. Double-depth plan. Tudor
style. Three storeys over cellar, a symmetrical 3-window
facade with slightly jettied 2nd floor and gable with
barge-boards and finial. The ground floor has a wide
elliptical-arched window in the centre with enriched dark
green surround including imposts and keystone, and yellow
apron with raised red and green lettering "THE OLD BLACK
BULL"; and flanking doorways with segmental-pedimented
architraves of the same material, including panelled pilasters
and scrolled brackets. The upper floors have wooden mullioned
windows: at 1st floor, a shallow canted 10-light transomed
oriel on brackets in the centre, flanked by cross-windows with
small arcades beneath, and 2, 3, and 2-light windows at 2nd
floor with an ornamental splat-balustrade beneath. The gable
has a bressummer and pegged fish-bone struts. Painted inn-sign
hanging from prominent scrolled wrought-iron bracket at 2nd
floor. INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5372229526