The Bells is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House, former inn.

The Bells

WRENN ID
brooding-facade-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, former inn
Address
The Bells, 1, Fox Hill Road, Guilden Morden
OS grid reference
TL 280 441
Coordinates
52.08121, -0.13342
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bells is a house that was formerly an inn, dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and a brick plinth. The roof is half hipped and covered with plain tiles from the 20th century. There is a rectangular brick ridge stack made of red brick, which has 19th century gault brick upper courses, and a tall red brick gable end stack on the north side. The building has two storeys, with a single storey kitchen range to the north and a rear outshut. The entrance is located to the right of the center of the main range and is sheltered by a 20th century open gabled porch. There are four casement windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor. The building was previously known as The Six Bells public house and was recorded in 1801.

Local climate

The Bells 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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