Olde Blue Bell Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. A Georgian Public house. 2 related planning applications.

Olde Blue Bell Public House

WRENN ID
tall-paling-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Period
Georgian
Address
Olde Blue Bell Public House, 114, Church Street, PR1 3BS
OS grid reference
SD 544 294
Coordinates
53.75984, -2.69295
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Olde Blue Bell Public House is a public house with a former brewhouse attached to the rear. It likely dates from the earlier 18th century and was altered and enlarged in the 19th century. The building is constructed of brick in English garden wall bond, painted white, with a black-painted plinth and a slate roof. It has a double-depth layout, consisting of a single-depth front range with a parallel addition at the back.

The structure has three low storeys and three bays, although there are only two windows on the first floor. The ground floor features a central round-headed doorway with a pilastered surround and a plain fanlight, sheltered by a large semi-circular hood on brackets. There are wide rectangular three-light casement windows, some of which contain early 20th-century stained glass. The first floor has two vertical-rectangular two-light casement windows, while the second floor has three square two-light casements, all with raised sills. The building has gable chimneys.

The interior has been altered. Attached to the rear is a small 19th-century brewhouse made of red brick in English garden wall bond, which is rectangular in plan and has two low storeys. It features a circular pitching hole and a four-pane sash window on the first floor, while the ground floor has been altered, and it also includes a gable chimney.

Local climate

Olde Blue Bell Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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