Bell Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Coaching inn, hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Bell Hotel
- WRENN ID
- rusted-pediment-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Coaching inn, hotel
- Address
- Bell Hotel, 31, High Street, Saxmundham, IP17 1AF
- OS grid reference
- TM 386 631
- Coordinates
- 52.2149, 1.49229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Hotel is a coaching inn, now functioning as a hotel, built in 1842. It is constructed of gault brick, which is colourwashed on the ground floor, and features a slate hipped roof with a stack on the rear slope.
The exterior consists of a three-storey front with five windows. The central door is flanked by margin lights and is sheltered by a shallow porch supported by two Tuscan columns and a plain entablature. The ground and first floor windows are sash windows with 6/6 glazing bars, set under gauged skewback arches. The attic floor has five 3/3 sash windows, also with gauged skewback arches. The left side of the building is partly obscured by a screen wall from the adjacent Market Hall, while the right side features tripartite sash windows.
Inside, there is a stick baluster staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail, and a plain undecorated Assembly Room located on the first floor.
Local climate
Bell Hotel 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 2002
- 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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