The Eight Bells Public House

BURES HAMLET COLCHESTER ROAD TL 9033 (west side) 6/32 The Eight Bells Public House GV II House, now a public house. C15 and early C16, extended in early C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range, early C16, with axial chimney stack, and 3-bay crosswing to right with external chimney stack on right wall. Early C19 brick range to left, with rear external chimney stack. C20 single-storey extensions to rear of main range, to right of crosswing, and small flat-roofed extension at front right. 2 storeys. C19 block at left has 2-window range of contemporary sashes of 16 lights. Main range and crosswing have one similar window on the ground floor and 3 on the first floor, 2 C20 casements and 2 C20 doors. Hipped gablet at rear end of crosswing. The ground floor has a full-length jetty, underbuilt; most of the structure is plastered or boxed in. On the first floor there are jowled posts, close studs with curved braces trenched inside, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the wall plate of the crosswing, cambered tiebeams. There is a complete unglazed window in the rear wall of the main range, with 2 diamond mullions. The roof of the main range is of crownpost construction with axial braces to the crownposts, complete. No access to roof of crosswing. RCHM 2.

Listing NGR: TL9048533969