Old Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-porch-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Bell Cottage, Bell Hill, BS16 1BE
- OS grid reference
- ST 614 759
- Coordinates
- 51.48145, -2.55602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bell Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is built of stucco over Pennant rubble, featuring vertically hung clay tiles on the front and a steeply pitched pantile roof. The house has a double depth plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and consists of three bays.
On the ground floor, there is a four-panel door with an overlight located at the left end, sheltered by a flat canopy supported by scrolled brackets. To the right of the door, there are two flush 6/6 sash windows with architraves. The first floor has three sash windows, and there are two dormers in the attic with casement windows. The house has two brick chimneys: one at the right gable end and one along the ridge.
Although the interior was not inspected in 2006, Old Bell Cottage is recognized as a fine example of late 18th-century architecture. It holds significant group value with other listed buildings nearby, including the adjacent 18th-century house known as Rockfold, and it contributes positively to the character of Bell Hill.
Local climate
Old Bell Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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