Five Bells is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Inn. 6 related planning applications.
Five Bells
- WRENN ID
- buried-loggia-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Five Bells, 44, High Street, Burwell, CB25 0HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 589 662
- Coordinates
- 52.27135, 0.32776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Bells is an 18th-century inn, with assembly rooms added in the early 19th century, located on the east side of High Street, Burwell. It is constructed of painted local brick and white gault brick, with a plain tile roof, parapet gables, and original end stacks featuring red brick patterning. The assembly rooms have a slated hipped roof. The building is two storeys and attics, with a symmetrical three-bay facade. A sawtooth eaves cornice runs along the roofline. Three casement dormer windows are visible in the roof, each with a segmental shaped leaded roof. The first floor has three windows, each a twelve-pane, near-flush frame hung sash window set within a segmental arch, though the original window height has been reduced. Below, two similar windows flank a six-panelled 19th-century door, which has a moulded doorcase with a projecting cornice supported by carved brackets.
Local climate
Five Bells sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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