2 Ten Bell Lane

This is a late 17th and 18th century house, originally a rear wing of 95 Pottergate, renovated in the late 20th century with additions. The house is constructed of brick, with a rendered west elevation, and has tiled roofs.

The section forming No. 2 Ten Bell Lane is two storeys with an attic and basement. The entrance from Ten Bell Lane features a door with six raised and fielded panels, topped by a three-light overlight. The door is set within an 18th-century doorcase featuring rusticated piers, a keystone, and a pediment supported on consoles. Above the door is a replacement sash window with sidelights, replacing the twelve-paned sash shown in a photograph from 1938. To the south, the section originally belonging to 95 Pottergate is distinct, marked by a higher roof and a crow-stepped gable. Three twelve-paned sash windows are present, one to the first floor and two to the ground floor; a continuous storey band runs along the west elevation across the return of 95 Pottergate and 2 Ten Bell Lane, stopping shortly before the entrance. The two-storey east elevation is brick and has modern additions and alterations.

The front door opens onto a passage, with a short flight of steps leading to a living room to the right. These, along with the basement below, the first-floor room, and the attic above, were formerly part of 95 Pottergate. A bressumer sits above a blocked fireplace in the south wall of the living room, with a modern fireplace surround inserted below. Adjacent to this is an opening with shelving, likely formerly a doorway to 95 Pottergate. To the east of the steps to the living room are stairs to the basement which contains a cast iron fireplace with a basket grate, alongside a cast iron oven door at chest height, with a small square stoke hole and a cast iron door below. A substantial, roughly adzed beam is supported by cast iron pillars. The first-floor bedroom above the living room features a chamfered transverse beam with simple stops. A two-light timber mullioned window is set within the now internal east wall, alongside the stairs to the attic. The roof includes staggered purlins to the east and west, and principal rafters. The interior of the east side of the house has been extensively renovated and refurbished, although these alterations are excluded from the listing under section 1(5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.