Bell Cottages

Bell Cottages is a pair of houses built around 1860, located on the east side of Yalding Maidstone Road in Beltring. The north elevation features red and grey brick in Flemish bond, while the east gable end is made of red brick. The south elevation is brick, with the ground floor covered in render and the first floor adorned with tile-hanging. The roof is plain tile and the building is oriented at right angles to the road.

The cottages are two storeys high with a garret. The south elevation includes a dentilled brick eaves cornice that is nearly flush with the tile-hanging. The gabled roof has brick gable-end ridge stacks, each with a slender stack positioned behind it on the north slope. At the center of the ridge, there is a low flat-topped plain-tiled pyramidal platform that supports a bell cupola with a leaded pyramidal roof.

The front has a regular arrangement of two windows, featuring sixteen-pane sashes that are recessed into the tile-hanging on the south side, with similar sashes on the ground floor below. The north elevation has two paned two-light horizontally-sliding sashes with segmental heads. There is a pair of plain doors beneath a shared bracketed plain-tile lean-to canopy at the center of the south elevation.

The bell was installed as a fire alarm to summon workers from the hop fields to the nearby oasthouse complex at Beltring Hop Farm. The cottages are listed for their historical interest.