The Five Bells is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. A Georgian Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Five Bells
- WRENN ID
- rooted-turret-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Five Bells, the Cross, Eastry, CT13 0HX
- OS grid reference
- TR 309 546
- Coordinates
- 51.24442, 1.30807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Bells is a public house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It features painted brick in 'Minster' bond on the ground floor and has a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys tall with an attic, set on a plinth and has a plat band. The roof is hipped to the right and half hipped to the left, with two hipped dormers and chimney stacks located at the left end, centre left, and right end.
On the first floor, there are five glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has three glazing bar sashes and two tripartite glazing bar sashes flanking a central double doorcase. The doorcase has pilaster surrounds and a cornice, with only the left door being glazed; the right door is blocked. There are basket arched heads above earlier blocked openings. The right end window bay is a later addition, which includes a small outshot. Inside, there is a fine early 18th-century staircase featuring turned balusters on an open string, with a dogleg and half landing plan.
Local climate
The Five Bells receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- 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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