The Bell Inn

GREAT BLAKENHAM STOWMARKET ROAD TM 15 SW 3/57 The Bell Inn - - II Public House. Early C19 with core of late C16 or early C17. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Painted red brick with dentilled eaves cornice. Plaintiled roofs with end chimneys of red brick. Sash windows with flat arches; flush frames and small-pane sashes. 6-panelled entrance door and open gabled porch with walls of painted brick and gabled plaintiled roof; round-arched opening with splayed reveals, and above it an open niche of similar form. To right is a small C20 lean-to extension. Immediately behind the main range is a small house of late C16 or early C17; 1 storey and attics with a hall range and cross-wing. Timber-framed and plastered, partly encased in painted brick. Roman pantiled roof. Some unmoulded framing is exposed in the cross-wing. Believed to have been known as Bluebell Farm in c.1830.

Listing NGR: TM1148051563