Bell View Cottage Seven Bells

Bell View Cottage, formerly known as Seven Bells, is a house that has also served as a shop, now divided into two dwellings. It dates from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and further modifications, including raising and extending, in the mid to late 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with some scoring to mimic ashlar stone. The roof is covered with black glazed pantiles, with plain tiles and red pantiles at the rear.

The structure consists of three cells and a three-bay service wing at the rear left, forming an L-shaped plan. It is two storeys high, with a lobby entrance that likely replaced an original cross entry, leading up to an architraved door located to the right of centre. There are flanking architraved glazing bar sash windows with hoodboards. The left service bay has steps leading up to a half-glazed architraved door and a large architraved eight-light former shop window. On the first floor, there are three six-pane architraved sash windows and boxed eaves.

An axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of centre between the hall and parlour, featuring three conjoined hexagonal shafts. The right gable end has a 20th-century entrance porch. At the rear right, there is a 19th-century lean-to made of flint and clay lump, with a lower lean-to outshut in the centre and a dormer window. The service wing extends to the rear left and includes a stack on the outer slope of the first or kitchen bay, with a rebuilt capping. The inner return of the service wing has two doors and mixed casements.

Inside, the parlour has been altered and features an 18th-century fireplace and a chamfered axial binding beam. The hall contains a 17th-century cyma moulded indented stop chamfered fireplace bressumer. The former shop in the service bay has an applied cyma moulded cornice, and there are stop-chamfered axial binding beams in the service wing.