The Old Bell Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Public house.

The Old Bell Public House

WRENN ID
sheer-bastion-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 January 1973
Type
Public house
Address
The Old Bell Public House, 16, Exeter Street Wc2, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 305 808
Coordinates
51.51178, -0.12019
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Bell Public House is a public house built in 1835 as part of the Wellington Street development. It features painted brick with stucco dressings and a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with a dormered mansard roof. It has five windows across the front, a one-window curved corner, and a one-window wide return to Wellington Street. The ground floor has a wooden public house front with a corner entrance, and the windows are framed by pilasters and console brackets that support a modified entablature. The upper floors, some of which have blind windows, contain glazing bar sashes set in stucco architraves, with the first-floor windows featuring cornices. The return on Wellington Street has one tripartite window on each floor. The building is topped with a bracketed cornice and a stucco parapet.

Local climate

The Old Bell Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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