The Bell Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Bell Public House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chamber-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bell Public House, 117, Primrose Hill, Abbots Langley, WD4 8HX
- OS grid reference
- TL 077 029
- Coordinates
- 51.71509, -0.44136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Public House is a timber-frame building with a brick front, dating from the early to mid-17th century to the rear, and a later front range from the late 18th or early 19th century. It has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is L-shaped on plan and has a tiled roof to the rear and a hipped slate roof to the front.
The rear range, to the right, is three bays. A central entrance has been built into what was an extruded stack cut at the eaves. The rear has 2 and 3-light 20th-century flush casements. The right gable end shows exposed timber framing with brick infill, featuring a jowled post to the south, a curved tie beam, struts to the collar, and an external stack with a rebuilt cap. A catslide roof extends over a continuous lean-to outshut to the original rear.
The front range, to the left and at a right angle, is three windows wide, with a central entrance bay. The ground floor has flanking canted bays. The first floor has recessed 20th-century casements. Boxed eaves are present. An extruded stack is at the right end, and a single-story lean-to outshut is on the left end.
The interior features ground floor stop-chamfered bearers that have been reset, along with exposed wattle and daub panels. The first floor was not inspected.
Local climate
The Bell Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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