The Bell Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House, public house.
The Bell Public House
- WRENN ID
- deep-pavement-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House, public house
- Address
- The Bell Public House, High Street, Great Bardfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 674 304
- Coordinates
- 51.94735, 0.43538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Public House is a building that dates back to the 17th century and was extended in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles, while the extension is constructed of painted brick in Flemish bond. The building has two bays facing northwest and includes an external rear stack. There is a 19th-century crosswing at the right end and a long 19th-century extension at the rear of the left end. The structure is two storeys high and has a three-window range of late 19th-century sashes with marginal lights that are arranged irregularly. The entrance has a 20th-century door set in a simple doorcase with a shallow hood supported by scrolled brackets from the 19th century. The gable of the crosswing features pierced bargeboards.
Local climate
The Bell Public 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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