The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. HIGH STREET 5274 (South Side) The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn TQ 5474 2/1 22.12.53.
II*
2. Formerly a large coaching inn on the London to Canterbury and Dover road. Built in 1703. 2 storeys and attics. The ground floor is of painted brick on a tiled base. Above the building is faced with grey bricks, which have been renewed, with red brick window dressings and quoins. Tiled roof with 3 dormers. Parapet of grey bricks. Wooden modillion cornice. 9 sashes with glazing bars intact. In the centre of the ground floor is the carriage entrance leading to the hotel yard with a royal cartouche on each side of it. Tuscan columns on the left hand side of the carriage entrance and C18 pub front. The building runs back into 2 long wings behind separated by the hotel yard with galleries on each side on the 1st floor. The yard is now glazed over. It has a galleried courtyard and the saloon bar has a Regency bay window. Listing NGR: TQ5417174024 (1)

Description from record TQ 57 SW 139:
[TQ 5417 7403] Sited to Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel. On 28th of October 1974 workmen dug away part of chalk block lined well at the rear of the Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel. A small part of the well survived - the fill contained two complete stone ware bottles, together with fragments of pipe stem and part of a red earthenware dish. These characteristic stone ware bottles must have been made specially for the Bull Inn sometime between 1700 and 1750 (2).

Reference with KE 977 - Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel

Description from record TQ 57 SW 97:
(TQ 54177403) The Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel (NAT) (1) 5274 HIGH STREET (South Side) The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn II* 2. Formerly a large coaching inn on the London to Canterbury and Dover road. Built in 1703. 2 storeys and attics. The ground floor is of painted brick on a tiled base. Above the building is faced with grey bricks, which have been renewed, with red brick window dressings and quoins. Tiled roof with 3 dormers. Parapet of grey bricks. Wooden modillion cornice. 9 sashes with glazing bars intact. In the centre of the ground floor is the carriage entrance leading to the hotel yard with a royal cartouche on each side of it. Tuscan columns on the left hand side of the carriage entrance and C18 pub front. The building runs back into 2 long wings behind separated by the hotel yard with galleries on each side on the 1st floor. The yard is now glazed over. It has a galleried courtyard and the saloon bar has a Regency bay window. (3) The Inn was demolished in January 1981 to make way for a new Boots store. (4) Additional bibliography. (5-6) Photographic record (7)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Kent Arch Rev 40 1975 286-88 (D Garrod) (OS Card Reference). SKE45776.

<3> DOE(HHR)Dist of Dartford Kent Sept (OS Card Reference). SKE41313.

<4> Rediscovering Dartford 1986 34-5 (OS Card Reference). SKE49115.

<5> Bldgs of Eng West Kent and the Weald 1980 259 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38053.

<6> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1998, Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel, Dartford, Archaeological and Photographic record during refurbishment (Unpublished document). SKE32297.

<7> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1998, Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel, Dartford, Archaeological and Photographic record during refurbishment (Unpublished document). SKE32297.

<8> OS 1:1250 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48179.