The Old Bell is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Restaurant. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Bell
- WRENN ID
- third-railing-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Old Bell, Huddersfield Road, Saddleworth, OL3 5EG
- OS grid reference
- SD 988 075
- Coordinates
- 53.5643, -2.01942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bell is a posting and coaching house, now functioning as a restaurant, dating from around 1800 and built for William Bell. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a slate roof. The building has three bays and three storeys, with quoins at the corners. The central entrance includes a four-panel door topped with a fanlight and an open pediment supported by three-quarter columns. Each floor of bay two has sash windows, while bays one and three feature paired sashes, all framed with square-cut stone surrounds. A brick gable chimney stack is present, and the rear of the building includes two, five, and six-light recessed flat-faced mullion windows, along with taking-in doors leading to the upper floors.
Local climate
The Old Bell 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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