Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bull Inn PH (including Caesar Hughes)
Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangollen, Denbighshire, designated on 22 December 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 22 December 1989
- Community
- Llangollen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96980, -3.17053
- Cadw reference
- 1145
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Detached to the right, near the crossroads.
History
Mid C19 late Georgian style with Art Nouveau alterations dated 1908.
Exterior
3-storey 3-window painted roughcast front with cill bands; slate roof and roughcast and brick chimney stacks, boarded eaves. Small pane sash windows; 12-pane to 2nd floor and cambered heads to 1st floor with stopped labels - one window has had some glazing bars removed; brick jambs. Splayed oriel to left (contemporary with 1908 alterations) with dentil cornice, coloured glass and small pane sash glazing. Public House frontage added to left in 1908 in glazed terracotta. Modern shop front to right.
Interior
Convex tile entablature with raised lettering. The bracket of the oriel cuts across this and is linked to the bulls head keystone over the bar window; (LLB monogram). Round arch headed openings with hoodmoulds and pilasters; fluted keystones over recessed doorways with fanlight over. Flat volutes below window cill and coloured festoons; coloured foliage to the spandrels. To the right is a similar round arch opening with the lettering 'stabling' to the cornice; boarded doors open onto carriage entry.
Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring listed items in Castle Street.
Nearby in the register
- Ectarc (Former Bedyddwyr Chapel)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gwunn Davies, ButchersCommercialunder 1 mi
- J & C Burnetts Spinnaker RestaurantCommercialunder 1 mi
- Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.