The Eight Bells Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A C18 Inn. 1 related planning application.

The Eight Bells Hotel

WRENN ID
sheer-parapet-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1989
Type
Inn
Address
The Eight Bells Hotel, the Moor, Hawkhurst, TN18 4NX
OS grid reference
TQ 756 295
Coordinates
51.03839, 0.50373
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Eight Bells Hotel is an inn dating from the 18th century, with an extension added in the mid-19th century. The building features a timber frame and is tile hung on the painted brick ground floor, while the rear is weather-boarded. It has a plain tiled roof and a slate-roofed extension. The main range is two stories high with a hipped roof and chimney stacks located at the right end and the center. On the first floor, there are four glazing bar sash windows, with mullioned windows to the right and center left. The center and left sides have half-glazed doors, both set within large late 20th-century gabled porches, with the porch on the left being larger. At the back, there is a parallel hipped wing that has projecting stacks and a lean-to outshot. To the left, there is a two-story extension, built before 1880, featuring a gabled roof and a stack on the right. This extension has three glazing bar sash windows on the first floor and three grouped sashes on the ground floor, with a canted oriel window on the left return.

Local climate

The Eight Bells Hotel receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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