Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Hotel, shop premises.
Bell House
- WRENN ID
- north-jamb-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Hotel, shop premises
- Address
- Bell House, Huddersfield Road, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 987 075
- Coordinates
- 53.56429, -2.01963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell House is a hotel that has been converted into shop premises, built around 1820. It is constructed of dressed stone, with watershot stone at the rear, and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a double-depth, three-bay plan, with three storeys plus a basement, and an additional fourth bay to the right that includes a coach arch. The exterior is characterized by raised quoins and an eaves cornice.
The central door, which is now blocked, originally had a fanlight, archivolt, and pediment. A similar door design is found in a small additional bay to the left. Later shop windows have been inserted on either side, and there is a segmental carriage arch in the fourth bay supported by rusticated square columns, with pedestrian ways on either side. Each upper floor features three triple sash windows without glazing bars, along with a single sash window above the door. All windows have square-cut surrounds and separating mullions. The building is topped with ridge and gable chimney stacks, and there are taking-in doors at the rear, along with similar windows.
Local climate
Bell House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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