The Bell Hotel

TL 7174 MILDENHALL HIGH STREET

12/50 The Bell Hotel

• II

Hotel, early C19, with 2-stage C16 core. 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows. Red brick with parapet-gables; the left-hand section has timber-framing behind. Plaintiled roofs with crested ridge tiles, flat-headed dormers and chimneys of gault brick. At 1st floor, C19 sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick and small-pane sashes. At ground floor, 3 C19 bays, splayed, with flat roofs; moulded cornices, wrought iron cresting and small-pane sashes. The main entrance is built into the segmental arched C19 carriage entrance; C20 4- panelled door set in panelled infilling. Further C20 entrance doorway to left with 6-panelled door, pilasters and canopy. The lounge to left forms an early C16 core of 2 cells with exposed framing. The dining room forms a late C16 rear extension of 2 storeys behind. Two wings were added to rear in early C19; one had stabling below and a jettied timber-framed club-room over, the other of painted gault brick with flint to rear. Both wings were altered C20.

Listing NGR: TL7108274591