46, Bell Street

BELL STREET 1. 5253 (South Side) No 46 TL 4835 1482:3/39 6.6.52 II GV 2. C16. Timberframed and plastered house with bracketed jetty at 1st floor along street front. 2 storeys and 2 windows. Gabled old red tile roof. Ground floor E flank wall now in old English bond brickwork. Front and roof stripped in 1970 revealing heavy close studding to front at both floors, 2 bay structure with W bay shorter, purlin roof with wind bracing, heavy tension bracing at front halved over outer faces of studs, wattle and daub panels with ancient pargetting between the studs of triple lines and triple holes. There is evidence of 2 projecting oriel windows of equal size in the positions of the existing 1st floor, early C18, 3 light and 4 light wooden casements with diamond leaded panes. Internal gable stack at E to larger bay. Present pargetting panelled to follow lines of structural members around windows. C19, 4 panel flush door and small boarded and ledged window shutter to plastered Gd floor. Modern shop window replaces C19 one of same size.

Listing NGR: TL4835014820