The Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A Georgian Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- other-kitchen-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Bell Inn, Smarden Bell Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 869 429
- Coordinates
- 51.15523, 0.6724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Inn is an 18th-century L-shaped building that stands two storeys tall. It features three windows on the north-east side and five windows on the north-west side. The ground floor of the north-east front is faced with weatherboarding, while the north-west front is constructed of red brick with grey headers, and both fronts are tile-hung above. The building has a hipped tiled roof and casement windows. There is a doorcase on the north-east front that includes a flat hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
The Bell Inn 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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