The Bell Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Hotel.
The Bell Hotel
- WRENN ID
- ancient-flagstone-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Bell Hotel, High Street, Mildenhall High
- OS grid reference
- TL 710 745
- Coordinates
- 52.34272, 0.51003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Hotel is a hotel that dates back to the early 19th century, with a core that originates from the 16th century. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring five windows. It is constructed of red brick with parapet gables, and the left section includes timber framing behind the brick façade. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have crested ridge tiles, flat-headed dormers, and chimneys made of gault brick.
On the first floor, there are 19th-century sash windows with flat arches made of gauged brick and small-pane sashes. The ground floor has three splayed 19th-century bays with flat roofs, which include moulded cornices, wrought iron cresting, and small-pane sashes. The main entrance is located within a segmental arched 19th-century carriage entrance, featuring a 20th-century four-panelled door set in panelled infilling. There is an additional 20th-century entrance doorway to the left, which has a six-panelled door, pilasters, and a canopy.
To the left, the lounge forms the early 16th-century core of the building, consisting of two cells with exposed framing. The dining room is a late 16th-century rear extension that is two storeys high. In the early 19th century, two wings were added to the rear; one wing included stabling below and a jettied timber-framed club-room above, while the other wing is made of painted gault brick with flint at the rear. Both wings underwent alterations in the 20th century.
Local climate
The Bell Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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