The Bell Inn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. A C16 Public house.

The Bell Inn Public House

WRENN ID
waning-groin-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 December 1985
Type
Public house
Address
The Bell Inn Public House, Mill Street, Wantage
OS grid reference
SU 397 879
Coordinates
51.58895, -1.427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bell Inn Public House is a building that dates back to the late 16th century. Originally timber-framed and jettied at the center, it has been extended by three bays to the left and two bays to the right, with a refacing that occurred around 1890. The ground floor features late 19th-century English bond brick, while the first floor is tile hung with club and plain tiles. The roof is covered with old tiles and has brick stacks.

The building is two storeys tall, with an additional attic storey on the left side, and presents a seven-window range. There are flat and segmental arches above the late 19th-century cellar doors. The windows are late 19th-century casements, and there is a gabled dormer on the left with a stepped three-light casement. Each of the four first-floor windows on the right side has gablets above them. The gabled roof is also hipped at the adjoining rear left gable, which has ridge stacks. The left gable wall features a late 19th-century panelled door with an overlight.

Inside, the building has a three-bay collar-truss roof with clasped purlins. The timber framing and large jowled posts are exposed on the first floor, and there is part of a chamfered beam visible on the ground floor.

Local climate

The Bell Inn Public House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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