The Blue Bell Inn

The Blue Bell Inn is a 17th-century inn located on Chester Road (A41) in Tushingham cum Grindley. The building features oak small framing that is partly pebbledashed, with some areas of rendered brickwork added later. An early 20th-century extension is present on the left side, which has a pebbledashed brick lower storey and a timber-framed upper storey with pebbledashed panels. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with grey slate.

The original 17th-century part of the inn is two storeys high and has three windows, arranged almost symmetrically. To the right, there is a lower two-storey cross-wing that is pebbledashed, featuring an oak truss on the gable and small framing on the rear part of the right side, with braces visible beneath the eaves. The rear has been replaced in brick up to the first floor, with small framing above and braces beneath the eaves. The exposed part of the old left end-gable shows an angle-strut truss.

A notable feature is the two-storey gabled porch, which has shaped corner posts on stone bases and a jettied upper storey supported by shaped braces. The porch includes a door made of four wide oak boards, hung on shaped wrought iron hinges within a massive ovolo-moulded oak frame. The lintel above the door is inscribed with "EN: 1667" in a crude shield. The windows are mullioned casements set under basket arches, with ancient windows to the lower storey right of the door and to the upper storey left of the door. There is also a shutter for the window left of the door. Bracing beneath the eaves is present on each side of the porch, and the bargeboards have been replaced. A large brick chimney rises behind the ridge opposite the porch, and a mounting block is attached to the front, left of the porch.

Inside, the oak stair immediately inside the porch features winders through 180 degrees, a square newel, a shaped rail, and shaped splat balusters. The cross-wing and front room of the main wing have stop-chamfered oak beams. There is an oak broad-board door leading to the left room, complete with wrought iron hinges and latch. Some oak beams can be seen upstairs, although no framing is exposed.