1-4, Bells Court

Two attached houses, later converted into four houses, now serve as a club and a museum. They date from the 17th century and were remodeled in the early 18th century. The house on the right (Nos 1 and 2) was mostly rebuilt around 1980. The buildings have rubble walls and steep roofs, with asbestos slate on Nos 3 and 4 and dry slate on No. 2. They are two stories high and have an overall eight-window range. Nos 3 and 4 feature a five-window range with early 18th-century hornless sash windows with thick glazing bars, except for an early 19th-century sash on the right. These flank an original two-storey deep-plan steep pedimented gabled porch, which is slate-hung on the first floor. The porch has a central pair of late 18th-century or early 19th-century 12-pane hornless sashes and is supported below by four granite Tuscan columns with an entablature above the capitals. The doorway within the porch is on the left and has an 18th-century panelled door, with two windows on either side of the doorway (the one to the right is within the porch) and a further doorway at the far right with an old six-panel door. There are early to mid-19th-century 12-pane hornless sashes on the left and possibly later 8-pane sashes on the right. No. 2 has a 20th-century replica symmetrical three-window front, with ground-floor windows closer to the gabled two-storey porch on four incorrectly copied granite columns, along with 20th-century copy sashes and a 20th-century door. No. 1 is a single-storey rendered wing projecting forward at the far right, also featuring 20th-century sashes. The interior includes some 18th-century fielded panelling in the right-hand room, a moulded ceiling cornice, and window shutters in the ground-floor rooms. There is a straight-flight staircase that is probably also from the 18th century. Captain George Bell resided here in 1764, as noted on a date plaque.