Bell's Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1952. Farmhouse.
Bell's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-moat-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Selly Oak MP: Al Carns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bell's Farmhouse, 157, Bell's Lane B14
- OS grid reference
- SP 063 787
- Coordinates
- 52.40678, -1.90791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell's Farmhouse is a substantial farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to the mid 17th century. It stands two storeys high with an attic and features a timber frame with red brick infill, which has later been roughcast. The building has double gabled fronts and rear, with the gables slightly jettied at the attic level, and is topped with an old tile roof. Original external chimney stacks are located on the side elevations, featuring tall coupled stair-shaped shafts. The windows are mainly 19th-century wood casements.
The central doorway leads into an axial passage, with the door framed in an architrave, although the hood is missing. Inside, the main rooms retain 17th-century panelling, although some of it appears to have been reset. The ground floor right-hand room showcases a palmette frieze, while the upper right-hand room contains remnants of a 17th-century plaster ceiling divided into two compartments, one decorated with a rosette and guilloche, and the other featuring an original design with lions' masks. A dog leg staircase retains elements of splat balusters. Additionally, the site of the house was moated to the west.
Local climate
Bell's Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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