The Bell Inn and Attached Wall and Coach House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1950. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Bell Inn and Attached Wall and Coach House

WRENN ID
lesser-wattle-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1950
Type
Public house
Address
The Bell Inn and Attached Wall and Coach House, 4, Tower Street, Launceston, PL15 8BQ
OS grid reference
SX 331 847
Coordinates
50.63813, -4.36037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

The Bell Inn and Attached Wall and Coach House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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