The Bell Inn And Attached Wall And Coach House

The Bell Inn and attached wall and coach house is a public house located on Tower Street in Launceston. The building features a 15th-century doorway that has been altered over time, with the coach house added in the mid to late 19th century. The structure is made of painted rubble and has slate hanging on studwork for the jettied upper floors on the left side and the second floor on the right. The roof is covered with asbestos slate, while the coach house has a dry slate hipped roof.

The building has a shallow-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a two-window range. It includes 20th-century windows, an original pointed-arched 15th-century double roll-moulded granite doorway on the left with a late 19th-century door, and a 17th-century moulded and chamfered granite outer frame for a window on its right. To the far right is a 20th-century window and a late 19th-century pointed-arched doorway. The coach house features a symmetrical two-window front with segmental brick arches over leaded lights on the bottom half of the first floor, along with shuttered windows on the ground floor and a central first-floor loading doorway above a wide doorway with a pair of ledged doors.

Inside the public house, there is an 18th-century moulded ceiling cornice on the ground floor and some late 19th-century Gothic style features. Historically, the Bell Inn was the first meeting place of the Launceston Odd Fellows on July 10th, 1860.