Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1977. A Regency Cottage.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-granite-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Regency
- Address
- Bell Cottage, 16, Church Street, Alton
- OS grid reference
- SU 717 395
- Coordinates
- 51.15085, -0.97503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is an early 19th-century building that has been altered. It stands two storeys high and features two bays, with a single-storey gabled wing on the left that is one bay wide and slightly advanced from the front of the house. The exterior is tile hung and topped with a slate roof. On the ground floor, there is a door in an arched opening to the right and a window on the left. The first floor has a window on the left, and both windows retain their original glazing bars.
Local climate
Bell Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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