Olde Blue Bell Public House

PRESTON

SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/76 (South side) 27/09/79 No.114 Olde Blue Bell Public House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South side) The Blue Bell Inn)

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Public house, with former brewhouse linked to rear. Probably earlier C18, altered and enlarged in C19; altered. Brick in English garden wall bond, painted white, on plinth painted black; slate roof. Double-depth formed by single-depth front range with parallel addition to rear. Three low storeys and 3 bays (but with only 2 windows at 1st floor), symmetrical; the ground floor has a central round-headed doorway with pilastered surround and plain fanlight, protected by a large semi-circular hood on brackets, and wide rectangular 3-light casement windows with some early C20 stained glass; the 1st floor has 2 vertical-rectangular 2-light casement widows, and the 2nd floor has 3 square 2-light casements (all these windows with raised sills). Gable chimneys. INTERIOR altered. Linked to the rear is a small C19 brewhouse of red brick in English garden wall bond, rectangular in plan, 2 low storeys, with a circular pitching hole and a 4-pane sash at 1st floor (ground floor altered), and a gable chimney.

Listing NGR: SD5441429498