The Bell Inn And Attached Wall And Coach House

LAUNCESTON

SX32843384 TOWER STREET 660-1/4/181 No.4 27/02/50 The Bell Inn and attached wall and Coach House (Formerly Listed as: TOWER STREET No.4 The Bell Inn)

GV II

Public house. C15 doorway and later altered; coach house mid/late C19. Painted rubble, and slatehanging on studwork to jettied upper floors on left and 2nd floor on right; asbestos slate roof; dry slate hipped roof on coach house. Shallow-depth plan. 3 storeys; 2-window range. C20 windows; original pointed-arched C15 double roll-moulded granite doorway on the left with late C19 door; C17 moulded and chamfered granite outer frame of window on its right. C20 window and late C19 pointed-arched doorway to far right. Coach house has symmetrical 2-window front with segmental brick arches over leaded light to bottom half of 1st floor with-hand window; shuttered windows to ground floor and central 1st-floor loading doorway over wide doorway with pair of ledged doors. INTERIOR of public house has C18 moulded ceiling cornice to ground floor roof and some late C19 Gothic style features. HISTORY: the Bell Inn was the 1st meeting place of Launceston Odd Fellows (July 10th 1860). (Robbins AF: Launceston, Past and Present: Launceston: 1888-: P.372).

Listing NGR: SX3319284709