Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Cottage.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-hall-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bell Cottage, Church Road, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 940 735
- Coordinates
- 52.32599, 0.8468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with an early 19th-century Gothic exterior. It has a timber frame, rendered on the front, while the rest is mainly faced in rubble flint, topped with a pantiled roof. The building is 1½ storeys tall and features a 2-cell end chimney plan. There is one three-light and one two-light casement window with ornate wooden ogee heads, along with a plain two-light casement window in the upper storey. On the south gable, there is a two-light ogee-headed casement window, with a similar one-light window above it. The east side has two inserted gabled dormers. The entrance is through a plank door with a triangular head to the door frame. The cottage is situated against the churchyard wall.
Local climate
Bell Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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