Bell Cottages

YALDING MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 64 NE (east side) Beltring 3/41 Nos. 1 and 2 10.8.1983 Bell Cottages II

House pair. Circa 1860. North elevation red and grey brick in Flemish bond, east gable end red brick. South elevation brick, clad on ground floor with render, and on first floor with tile-hanging. Plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road. 2 storeys and garret. South elevation has dentilled brick eaves cornice virtually flush with tile-hanging. Gabled. Brick gable- end ridge stacks, each with slender stack behind it in north slope. Low flat-topped plain-tiled pyramidal platform towards centre of ridge, bearing bell cupola with leaded pyramidal roof. Regular 2-window front of sixteen- pane sashes recessed in the tile-hanging to south, with similar sashes to ground floor below. Two paned two-light horizontally-sliding sashes with segmental heads to north. Pair of plain doors under shared bracketed plain- tile lean-to canopy, to centre of south elevation. Interior not inspected. The bell was erected as a fire alarm to call workers from the hop fields to the extensive oasthouse complex at Beltring Hop Farm. Listed for historical interest.

Listing NGR: TQ6743247218