Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1976. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- quartered-transept-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Bell Inn, Canterbury Road, Lydden, CT15 7EX
- OS grid reference
- TR 261 454
- Coordinates
- 51.1632, 1.23257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Inn is a public house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of painted brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys set on a plinth, with the roof hipped to the left and chimney stacks located at the rear on both the left and right sides.
Originally, the inn had a regular arrangement of windows, including two tripartite sash windows and a central single sash on the first floor, along with two segmentally headed tripartite sashes on the ground floor. The structure has been extended to the right by a two-storey block, which includes one sash window on the first floor and two small, irregular wooden casements and sashes on the ground floor.
There is a half-glazed door positioned to the centre left, flanked by sidelights and set within a wide gabled porch. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot.
Local climate
Bell Inn receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 2018
- 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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