Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1990. House.

Bell House

WRENN ID
hushed-forge-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1990
Type
House
Address
Bell House, Lechlade Road, Eaton Hastings
OS grid reference
SU 253 970
Coordinates
51.67121, -1.63457
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bell House is a village school and school house, now a dwelling, built around 1890 by Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeates for Alexander Henderson of Buscot Park. It is designed in the Cotswold vernacular style, featuring coursed rubble stone with stone dressings, a gabled stone tiled roof, and a tall stone ridge stack. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the former school room located in the west wing at right angles to the road. It includes a large mullioned and transomed window in the former school room, along with 3 and 4-light mullioned windows with leaded casements elsewhere. There is one large dormer that breaks the eaves line, which has a hipped stone tiled roof, a dripstone, and a plank door with leaded lights. An open wood bell turret with a shaped lead cap rises from the junction of the two wings. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Bell House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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