Old Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. A Medieval Timber-framed hall-house. 4 related planning applications.
Old Bell House
- WRENN ID
- long-trefoil-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Timber-framed hall-house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Old Bell House, the Green, Wickhambreaux
- OS grid reference
- TR 221 587
- Coordinates
- 51.28432, 1.18376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bell House is a 15th-century timber-framed building, likely a hall-house with two bays. The first floor features close studding with brown roughcast infilling, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in painted brick. It has a hipped tiled roof and a 17th-century brick chimneystack. The exterior includes three casement windows with small square-headed panes and a simple doorcase. The south end of the ground floor has been extended at a later date. Inside, the building showcases exposed beams, including a dragon beam and an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Old Bell House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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