Former Blue Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Former hotel, wine lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Former Blue Bell Inn
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Former hotel, wine lodge
- Address
- Former Blue Bell Inn, 3 and 5, Yorkshire Street, OL16 1BH
- OS grid reference
- SD 895 133
- Coordinates
- 53.61693, -2.15878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Blue Bell Inn, originally a hotel and Yates's Wine Lodge, features two facades. The facade on Yorkshire Street is dated 1745, while the Newgate facade is inscribed "Wine Lodge 1911." The Yorkshire Street side is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof, while the Newgate side is made of ashlar. The building has a long, cranked plan with entrances on both streets.
The Yorkshire Street elevation has five bays and three storeys, with a central doorway. The ground floor features Victorian sash windows on the left and a 20th-century shop front on the right, along with stone sills and keystones. There is a modillion eaves cornice and an ornate lead rainwater head. The Newgate elevation, which is a single storey and five bays wide, is designed in an Edwardian Baroque style. It has gables over the two side bays and the central three, with semi-circular headed window and door openings that include keystones and leaded glass. Pilasters rise from corbels at the impost level, and the frieze displays "Rochdale Vintners Wine Co. Ltd." with a cornice above. Each gable features a semi-circular pediment with elaborate cartouches, the central one engraved "Wine Lodge 1911" and surrounded by a grapevine motif.
Local climate
Former Blue Bell Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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