The Bell House

The Bell House is likely an early 17th-century inn and cottage, remodelled in the late 17th century and extended in the early 18th century. It is constructed from limestone rubble and coursed squared marlstone rubble, with some marlstone ashlar dressings, and has a Stonesfield-slate roof with rubble stacks. The building comprises a two-unit, gable-fronted plan linked to a single-unit cottage. The front has two gables and four windows. On the right is the gable end of the original inn range, featuring a renewed cross window above a 20th-century arched doorway; to the left is the two-window cottage range with renewed leaded casements. The linking section has various altered casements and a gable parapet with a ball finial that matches that on the right. The right return wall has renewed cross windows at ground and first floor levels. The inn range's interior contains a massive central stack, an inglenook fireplace with a cambered bressumer, and a late 17th/early 18th-century doorcase with pilasters and a segmental arch. Until around 1880, the property operated as the Bell Inn.