Blue Bell Public House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1994. Inn.
Blue Bell Public House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-oriel-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1994
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Blue Bell Public House, 1, Thorngate, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 161
- Coordinates
- 54.5405, -1.92498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blue Bell Public House is a house that has been converted into an inn, dating from the late 18th century. It is built from coursed squared stone with quoins and ashlar dressings, and features a roof made of concrete tiles with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. The building stands three storeys high and has a two-window range, along with a two-storey, one-window rear wing.
The central entrance consists of a six-panel door set within a 20th-century porch, which is topped by an 18th-century hood. To the left, there is a shallow canted bay window from the 19th century, featuring a flat roof and four-pane sash windows. On the right, there is a clasping projection with a canted corner and 20th-century glazing. The upper floors have paired windows with tooled stone surrounds and stone mullions, all of which have been replaced with four-pane sashes.
The roof is adorned with gable copings on moulded kneelers and has corniced end chimneys, with the left chimney made of red brick and the right chimney made of yellow brick. The right side of the building, facing Bridgegate, has a plain stone surround for a three-pane sash window on the ground floor and a small four-pane sash window on the second floor, both featuring flat stone lintels and sills. The rear wing includes a blocked door on the left, a wide ground-floor sash window with one-over-three panes, and a small four-pane sash window on the second floor, all with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. There is an end chimney on the wing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Blue Bell Public House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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