Six Bells Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

Six Bells Public House

WRENN ID
dark-cornice-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1962
Type
Public house
Address
Six Bells Public House, 9, High Street, Fulbourn, CB21 5DH
OS grid reference
TL 519 562
Coordinates
52.18338, 0.22176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Six Bells Public House is a 16th-century inn that has been altered in the 19th century and was substantially restored and extended around 1963 after a fire. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with 20th-century brick gable ends and a thatched roof made of reed. The building has end stacks that have been rebuilt. The layout consists of a single range of four bays and it stands two storeys high, with the first floor jettied above the carriageway and coach entry, which is at a higher level. The original jetty brackets are still present, although the carriageway was sealed in the 19th century. At the first floor, there are four casement windows, and one small 19th-century window that is now blocked. The ground floor has one doorway that dates from when the carriageway entry was sealed, while the other doorway is likely one of the original doorways in the cross-passage. There are two canted bays from the 19th century that are underbuilt to the jettied end bays. Inside, little of the original framing is visible, and some timbers have been added. To the left, there is a single-storey brick and tiled building that was originally a kitchen.

Local climate

Six Bells Public House 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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