The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LINTON HILL TQ 75 SE LINTON (blast Side) 3/156 The Bull Inn (Formerly listed as Post Office Stores 23.5.67 and Bull Inn GV II Public house and post-office stores, now public house. C16 or early C17, with later C17 and C19 alterations. Timber framed. Exposed framing with plaster infilling to first floor of left wing, rest rendered. Plain tile roof. Main range, with cross-wing projecting forwards to left. Right end of main range possibly added. Cross-wing 2 storeys, attic and cellar on brick plinth, main range 2 storeys on rendered plinth. Underbuilt jetty to gable end of cross-wing. Continuous jetty on moulded bressumer to all but right end of main range. Wing close-studded, with plain bargeboards. Roof of main range half-hipped to right with higher ridge than wing. Projecting brick stack to left side elevation of wing and rear stacks towards centre and right end of main range. Irregular fenestration of 6 casements; one 3-light to cross-wing, three 3-light to central section of main range, and one 5-light and one single-light to former post-office to right. Slightly canted C19 shop front to former post- office to right, with two 3-light windows flanking half-glazed door, and with moulded cornice and plain fascia. Ribbed door up 2 steps to right side elevation of wing, ribbed door up 2 steps towards centre of main range, and ribbed door to right of shop front. Rear left return wing to main range, immediately to right of cross-wing, and 3 short rear wings to main range. Date AG painted on main range. Interior: only partly 1674 inspected. Exposed framing. Moulded ground-floor beams. 2 moulded stone fireplaces with 4-centred arched wooden bressumers; to wing and main range.
Listing NGR: TQ7538950165

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