Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1954. House. 1 related planning application.

Bell Cottage

WRENN ID
sunken-step-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Dulwich and West Norwood MP: Helen Hayes (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 June 1954
Type
House
Address
Bell Cottage, 23, College Road, SE21 7BG
OS grid reference
TQ 331 735
Coordinates
51.44492, -0.08481
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bell Cottage is a house located on College Road, dating from the mid-18th century and altered since its construction. The building is weatherboarded and features a pitched tiled roof with external stacks at the gable ends. It has two storeys and five bays, with a central entrance. The entrance includes an eight-panelled door with plain reveals, framed by a timber Doric doorcase that has fluted pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a mutule cornice, which continues as a string course across the front. The cottage has shutters on its eight-pane sash windows, which include glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bell Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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