The Old Bell

TL 4032 ANSTEY DAWS END (North side)

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GV II

House. C17, heightened in early C18, parlour extended into lower barn at N in C19 as club room to PH, became a house c.1957. Timber frame on black stuccoed sill, dark weatherboarded, rear roughcast with dripboard between floors. Steep thatched roofs, barn hipped at W, house half-hipped. Thatched lean-to at E and slated weatherboarded extension at SE with monopitch. A 2-storeys, 3-cells, internal chimney, lobby entry plan house facing S with chimney a third from W, stair in entrance lobby, and E external gable chimney with oven projection. Parlour chimney backing onto main chimney added later. Rear outshut to hall and E service bays. S front has 3 windows, with flush casement windows, 2-light above and 3-light below, with tiled porch to door in front of chimney. Boarded doors to lower barn at W end. Interior has exposed timbers, axial beam supporting floor over hall but axial joists over E service end, large open fireplace in hall with chamfered brickwork, clasped purlin roof, straight tension braces in outshut, moulded plank door with old iron hinges, 2-panel raised and fielded door to club room. Clasped purlin roof and flat rafters in barn. Formerly the Bell Inn.

Listing NGR: TL4070632178