Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House.
Bell House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-marble-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bell House, the Street, Metfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 294 801
- Coordinates
- 52.37164, 1.36953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a roof made of glazed black pantiles. The building has two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with the entrance facade facing south. There are three windows that have original mullion and transom casements set beneath flat brick arches. The central doorway is adorned with a six-panel door, where the upper two panels are glazed, and it is framed by a moulded architrave, frieze, and a triangular pediment. The eaves cornice is made of wooden modillions. There is also a two-bay return that faces The Street.
Local climate
Bell House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
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