The Five Bells Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1973. Public house.
The Five Bells Public House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-eave-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Five Bells Public House, 18, Church Street, Shillington
- OS grid reference
- TL 125 340
- Coordinates
- 51.9934, -0.36198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Bells Public House is a 17th-century building with timber framed construction, although the ground floor has been rebuilt in brick. The ground floor features colourwashed render, while the first floor has colourwashed plaster infill. The roof is covered with 20th-century tiles. The building has a two-room plan and stands two storeys high, with a variety of casement windows, including two on the ground floor and two on the first floor, one of which is located in the porch block. All windows have glazing bars. The central porch is two storeys tall, has a hipped roof, and is aligned with a red brick double ridge stack. There is a plank door beneath a flat hood supported by cut brackets. To the right of the porch, there is a one-storey lean-to addition, and a 20th-century two-storeyed addition projects from the rear.
Local climate
The Five Bells Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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