Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. House, former inn. 1 related planning application.
Bell House
- WRENN ID
- small-nave-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1951
- Type
- House, former inn
- Address
- Bell House, 8, High Street, Alconbury, PE28 4DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 759
- Coordinates
- 52.3686, -0.25996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell House is a house that was formerly known as the Bell Inn. It dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with 19th-century extensions added to the rear and south-west. The building features a hall range with a cross-wing to the north-west and has a lobby entry. It is constructed with timber framing and plaster, with painted brick on the first floor and plinth. The roofs are thatched, while the cross-wing has a plain tiled roof. A large red brick chimney stack is located at the junction with the cross-wing, featuring three tall diagonal shafts, and there is a side stack to the south-east.
On the street elevation, there are three horizontal sliding sash windows on the first floor and two at ground level in the hall range, both equipped with shutters, along with two similar windows in the cross-wing. A boarded door is accessed by steps. Inside, the house contains one large inglenook hearth and one sealed hearth, along with stop-chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Bell House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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