The Old Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Public house.
The Old Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- ghost-truss-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Bell Inn, Cratfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 312 752
- Coordinates
- 52.32677, 1.39166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bell Inn is a farmhouse that later became a public house, dated 1570 on an internal beam. It features a 20th-century colourwashed brick addition at the front. The building is timber framed and plastered, with colourwashed brick on the left-hand gable end, and has a pantiled roof. It stands two storeys high and has a three-cell form, likely with a cross passage entry. The main range includes 19th-century casement windows and a boarded entrance door on the left side, along with a second doorway on the right side. There is a heavy internal stack and a small gable end stack on the left side.
Local climate
The Old Bell Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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