Ye Olde Bell Hotel

The Ye Olde Bell Hotel is an inn dating back to the late 15th century, with alterations in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with painted brick infill and some painted render, and has old tile gabled roofs. The building has a rectangular plan, comprising three framed bays with a former screens passage and a three-bay crosswing to the north, which is jettied on the west side. It has two storeys and attics. The west front, facing the road, features an irregular arrangement of three gables. A moulded jetty beam is present. The left-hand gable has a 20th-century gable with a carved bargeboard and two-light leaded casement windows to both floors. The central, wider gable has a 20th-century three-light leaded casement window on the first floor, and a similar four-light window projecting on small brackets to the ground floor. The right-hand gable also has a carved bargeboard and an early oriel window on the first floor, with five lights, pointed heads, moulded mullions, and a cill. A porch with a four-centred-arched head, moulded jambs and spandrel panels, and a 20th-century glazed door provides access; a matching opening with a planked two-leaf door is situated alongside. The porch also contains old bench seats. To the right of the entrance, a first-floor oriel window is five-lighted, and a ground-floor sash window has glazing bars in a moulded architrave. A side-sliding sash window with glazing bars, and a fixed-light window with glazing bars, are also present on the ground floor, both with shutters, and a large wooden settle sits between them.

Inside, much of the timber frame is exposed. The lounge features a pair of early 20th-century glazed, leaded entrance doors in a four-centred-moulded-arched opening, with a moulded and chamfered architrave. The ceiling has plain joists, with chamfered principal joists and wide oak floorboards visible above. An arched beam with chamfers and plain stops is found on the east side of the first framed bay. In the former service end, now the dining room, a four-centred arched opening with moulded jambs and a carved head features, with small carved lions' heads. A similar door opening leads to the office from the first floor. The roof contains queen post trusses with clasped purlins and curved windbraces, thought to be late 16th century, while the crosswing roof has a plain collar roof with butt purlins.