[2][3] The street is named after the Bull and Mouth Inn which stood on the south side from at least the time of the Great Fire of London in 1666 when it was destroyed.
[5] The street was first recorded on John Ogilby and William Morgan's Large Scale Map of the City As Rebuilt By 1676.
[4] Bull and Mouth Street appears on Richard Horwood's map of London published in 1813.
[7] An 1875 Ordnance Survey map shows there to have been a ward school on the north side at the western end and the French Protestant Chapel (1842) at the eastern end on the corner with St Martin's Le Grand.
[9] The street and the hotel and chapel were demolished in 1887 or 1888 to make way for new post office buildings at 1 St Martin's Le Grand, later Nomura House.