Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Bull Hotel
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27479, -3.00791
- Cadw reference
- 8910
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Long irregular frontage with return gable end to High Street and twin gabled range forward at right end.
History
C18 fronts in St David's Street, early C19 corner block.
Exterior
2 storeys, plus attic to corner block, white render with brick work to rear, slate roofs with projecting bargeboards to gables, tall brick stacks. 3 + 3 window frontage, paired splayed bays to centre and right, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. Entrance under later 3 bay openwork timber porch to right hand range, large garage doors in pilastered frame to left.
2 window elevation to High Street with arched 2-light window in gable, paired doors to first floor balcony and modern ground floor bays.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- St. David's HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Walls at Warden CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Warden CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding and Boundary Wall to NE of Warden CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.