Bell Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. Hotel. 13 related planning applications.
Bell Hotel
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-casement-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Bell Hotel, Orford Hill, NR1 3QB
- OS grid reference
- TG 231 083
- Coordinates
- 52.62726, 1.29517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Hotel is a 17th-century hotel with 19th-century additions and significant 20th-century alterations. The building is rendered and constructed of red brick, with pantile roofs. It occupies an irregular island site. The facade facing Orford Hill is three storeys high, with four bays. A left-hand entrance features a damaged timber surround containing spandrels and a rusticated stucco semi-elliptical arch. Sash windows with glazing bars are present throughout, with side lights on the ground and first floors. Rusticated quoins and a moulded string course are visible at the first floor level. The building is finished with a crenellated parapet. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Bell Hotel 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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