The Blue Bell is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Public house.
The Blue Bell
- WRENN ID
- hidden-gutter-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Blue Bell, A697, Ford
- OS grid reference
- NT 910 382
- Coordinates
- 55.63778, -2.14298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blue Bell is a public house that was formerly a coaching inn, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond, with slightly later additions at the rear made of random rubble with ashlar dressings and pantiled roofs.
The main block is two storeys high and has three bays. It features 12-pane sash windows in plain reveals with flat brick arches. The right bay includes a 9-pane sash window on the first floor and a projecting single-storey one-bay wing with a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor. The building has a gabled roof with tumbled-in brickwork and two 20th-century brick ridge stacks.
To the right, there is a slightly later single-storey extension also made of brick, which was extended to the right in stone during the 19th century. There is a doorway located at the rear. The rear extension consists of a two-storey, one-bay section with 12-pane sashes on the left and a single-storey, two-bay section on the right.
Local climate
The Blue Bell receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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