The Bell Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. Public house.

The Bell Public House

WRENN ID
high-iron-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1961
Type
Public house
Address
The Bell Public House, Bedford Street, Woburn
OS grid reference
SP 948 333
Coordinates
51.99057, -0.61986
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bell Public House is a public house that occupies two properties, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features colourwashed roughcast render, with No. 21 encasing English bond brickwork on the ground floor and timber framing on the first floor, while No. 22 encases brick. The roofs are covered with clay tiles, with No. 21 having a steeply pitched roof.

The building is two storeys high and has irregular window arrangements. On the ground floor of No. 21, there are three sash windows, with the third window being a 20th-century replacement for the original doorway, and a rectangular bay also featuring sashes. The first floor has three 2-light casements and a slightly projecting band at the first floor level. The ground floor doorway of No. 22 is a 20th-century alteration, with the original doorway on the left-hand side now blocked. There is a rectangular bay on the right-hand side, also reworked in the 20th century. The first floor of No. 22 has two 2-light casements, and all windows have glazing bars. No. 21 has an integral stack on the left-hand gable end, while No. 22 has a central ridge stack.

Local climate

The Bell Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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