Bell Cottage and Bell Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Cottage, former inn.
Bell Cottage and Bell Lodge
- WRENN ID
- tangled-wicket-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Cottage, former inn
- Address
- Bell Cottage and Bell Lodge, Vinehall Road, Mountfield, TN32 5JN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 755 204
- Coordinates
- 50.95635, 0.49816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage and Bell Lodge is a building that was originally the Bell Inn, dating from the 18th century. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper storey is tile-hung. The roof is tiled, and there are casement windows. To the southeast, there is a recessed section of one storey made of red brick, which was originally the stables of the inn.
Local climate
Bell Cottage and Bell Lodge receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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