Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Cottage.

Bell Cottage

WRENN ID
ragged-bastion-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Windsor and Maidenhead
Constituency
Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1955
Type
Cottage
Address
Bell Cottage, the Street, Waltham St. Lawrence, RG10 0JN
OS grid reference
SU 829 769
Coordinates
51.48505, -0.80629
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bell Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It has a timber frame that is rendered with false timbers and features an old tile gabled roof. The building has a nearly square plan consisting of one framed bay, with Pound Cottage to the left and the Bell Inn to the right, both of which are listed separately. The cottage is two storeys high and has a chimney on the left side of the ridge, which has an offset head and a clay pot.

The front facing the road was formerly jettied but is now underbuilt. It has a three-light metal casement window on both the ground and first floors. There is a 19th-century, four-panel entrance door on the right side, which is topped with a flat hood supported by cut brackets. Inside, the ground floor features chamfered joists.

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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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