Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. A Georgian Public house.
Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- idle-rood-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Bell Inn, 84, Sheep Street, Bicester
- OS grid reference
- SP 584 226
- Coordinates
- 51.89946, -1.15218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Inn is a public house located on Sheep Street in Bicester, dating from the early to late 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with wooden lintels and features Welsh-slate roofs. The building has an L-plan layout with two storeys plus attics and a two-storey section. The front of the earlier main range has three windows, with a central doorway flanked by 16-pane sash windows, and a blocked doorway on the extreme right. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows. The steep-pitched roof includes a rendered stack on the right gable and shares a large rubble-based stack with No. 86 on the left. The later range, which extends to the right, has a shallower roof, additional sash windows, and a large lateral stack. At the rear of the main range, there is a tall gabled stair projection, now incorporated into an outshut of the rear wing. Inside, the building features stop-chamfered beams and an inglenook fireplace. It is possible that the Bell Inn was originally linked to No. 86.
Local climate
Bell Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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