The Bell House

The Bell House is a late 18th-century house, with later additions to the rear and right side. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar, primarily using orange Lyddington stone, but incorporating brown Uppingham stone for quoins, bands, and window surrounds. The roof is covered in Collyweston slate, with stone-coped gables and ashlar chimneys featuring moulded cornices. The house is in an L-shaped plan, with two storeys and an attic, originally three bays wide. The first floor has four-pane sash windows, each with a cambered stone lintel and keyblock. The ground floor has late 19th-century canted bay windows with hipped concrete tile roofs and sash windows. There are two 20th-century flat-roofed dormers with three-light wooden casements. The central doorway has six panels, a leaded rectangular fanlight, a shaped flush keyblock, and two semi-circular stone steps. A single-storey extension to the right, formerly a stable, has a hipped roof and features two bays of 20th-century three-light barred wooden casements with stone lintels and keyblocks, as well as a blocked doorway with a stone surround to the left. A further outbuilding is attached to the rear of the stable, now a garage with a slate roof; it likely dates to the 19th century, though it contains a re-sited tablet dated 1772. A small extension with a parapet is located to the left of the main house. The rear of the house features a two-panelled door, a 19th-century lean-to in the angle, and stone and half-timbered extensions attached to the gable of the rear wing. Internally, a room on the ground floor has large niches with four-centred arches flanking the fireplace, and a spine beam with quirked ogee mouldings. The former stable has a re-sited fireplace with a moulded four-centred arch and an ashlar chimney.