The Bell Hotel

The Bell Hotel is an inn that dates from the early to mid 17th century, with later cased and extended work from the early 18th century and alterations in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and mostly covered in Flemish bond red brick. The roof is plaintiled, with red pantiles on the rear.

The building has a broad three-bay front range and a parallel block added to the rear. It stands two storeys tall, with an attic at the back. The brick front has an offset plinth and a blocked cellar window. The entrance is located to the right of centre, with steps leading up to a recessed half-glazed door. This door is framed by a lugged architrave that has an upper raised fielded panel and a projecting hood. In the centre, there is a full-height 19th-century canted bay window with 16-pane sashes, and the ground floor features three flush frame glazing bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads. The eaves are dentilled in brick, and there are cross axial end stacks with two offsets on the left end, along with moulded kneelers on a coped gable parapet that has tumbled-in brickwork.

The 18th-century parallel range at the rear has a broader, shallower roof. The left return has a brick-cased ground floor with a segmental-headed two-light glazing bar casement. There is an entrance towards the front with a recessed half-glazed door set in an early 19th-century Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters. The first floor has a glazing bar sash, and there is a two-light casement in the attic. A cross axial stack is located to the left of centre on the rear ridge. The rear features mixed fenestration, and there is a one-bay brick addition to the rear right, which is lower with two storeys and a hipped pantiled roof, along with a ground floor sash.

Inside, the frame is largely concealed, but there are stop-chamfered axial binding beams, some through tension bracing, and single butt purlin roofs.