Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1981. House.
Bell House
- WRENN ID
- woven-parapet-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bell House, 5, Bell Hill, Histon
- OS grid reference
- TL 437 639
- Coordinates
- 52.25491, 0.10388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell House is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century. It features an exposed timber frame and a modern pantile roof with a rebuilt ridge stack. The building has two storeys and a three-unit plan. On the upper floor, there are two modern casement dormer windows, while the ground floor has three casement windows. The entrance includes a panelled door in a lobby entry position, along with a richly carved door and doorcase featuring a shallow pointed arch, which is said to have come from Impington Hall. Inside, the house boasts two large inglenook hearths, stop-chamfered ceiling beams, and joists laid flat.
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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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