The Eight Bells Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. A C16 Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Eight Bells Public House
- WRENN ID
- wild-dormer-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Eight Bells Public House, 2, Park Street, AL9 5AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 233 086
- Coordinates
- 51.76253, -0.21343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Eight Bells Public House is a public house that likely dates back to the 16th century. It features a timber-framed structure with a 19th-century painted stucco and plaster front. The building has a plain tile roof and a tall rebuilt chimney stack. It is situated on the corner of Park Street and Fore Street and is designed as a three-sided building with one storey and attics. The entrance is on the right side, adorned with a thin hood supported by shaped brackets, and is flanked by Yorkshire casement windows. There are three gabled attic dormers, each with small pane casements. The pub has a literary connection to Charles Dickens.
Local climate
The Eight Bells Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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