Katch

The pub, in 2024

Katch is a historic pub in Northallerton, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.

The pub was built as The Black Bull, a coaching inn, in the mid-18th century. It was one of the town's first two coaching inns, with the King's Head, and the first to serve as a destination for mail coaches. It was also a stopping point on the Leeds to Newcastle stagecoach route,[1] and in 1785 received the first direct London to Edinburgh coach.[2] By the late 19th century, the building had been divided to provide a smaller pub and a drapers' shop.[1] In 2019, the pub was renamed "Katch", and his since been a combined pub, fish restaurant and hotel,[3] while the other part of the building remains a shop. The building was grade II listed in 1969.[2]

The building is constructed of brown brick, the left two bays painted, with a floor band, a dentilled eaves band and a Welsh slate roof. It has three storeys and seven bays, and three rear wings. The left two bays contain a shopfront, and to its right is a segmental-arched carriage opening with a rusticated quoined surround. Further to the right is a doorway with a blind fanlight, a fluted frieze with paterae, and a pediment on moulded brackets, flanked by canted bay windows. The upper floor contains sash windows, those on the middle floor with wedge lintels.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b Bradley, Tom (1889). The Old Coaching Days in Yorkshire. Leeds: Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company.
  2. ^ a b c Historic England, "The Black Bull, Northallerton (1315236)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 July 2025
  3. ^ Warne, Malcolm (18 August 2019). "Review: Katch, Northallerton". Northern Echo. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
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