The Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- solemn-moat-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bell Inn, High Street, Minster, CT12 4BU
- OS grid reference
- TR 310 643
- Coordinates
- 51.33113, 1.31522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Inn is a public house located on Minster High Street, dating back to the 16th century, with a mid-19th century re-cladding and extension. The building features a timber frame that is rendered on the ground floor, while the first floor showcases ornamental tile hanging beneath a plain tiled roof. The original timber-framed section is two storeys high, with a moulded eaves cornice and a hipped roof that includes four hipped dormers and chimney stacks at the left end and rear left. The first floor has four glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has two glazing bar sashes to the right and two tripartite glazing bar sashes to the left. A central half-glazed door provides entrance.
To the left is an extension known as the Tea Gardens, which is two storeys and curves around the road corner. This extension has a brick corbelled eaves cornice and an irregularly hipped roof, featuring a chimney stack to the left and two lead-capped ventilators. Each floor has one glazing bar sash window, with a blank window space to the left on the first floor, all adorned with painted heads. A half-glazed door is located to the right. The interior has been altered, but parts of the original frame remain visible.
Local climate
The Bell Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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