The Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1973. A C17 Pub. 4 related planning applications.
The Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- steep-thatch-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1973
- Type
- Pub
- Address
- The Bell Inn, Seabrook Road, CT21 5NB
- OS grid reference
- TR 166 349
- Coordinates
- 51.07264, 1.09186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Inn is a timber-framed building that was refronted in the 18th century. It has two storeys and is L-shaped in design. The ground floor is covered in stucco, while the upper part features weatherboarding on the south side, tiles on the west side, and a mix of red brick and stone rubble on the rear elevation. A section of the bressummer and brackets, which supported the first floor's former overhang, can be seen on the west front, although it is stuccoed over. The building has a steeply pitched tiled roof with a 17th-century chimneystack. There are three sash windows with missing glazing bars on the south and west elevations, with modern windows located below.
Local climate
The Bell Inn receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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