The Old Bell is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Tea rooms. 1 related planning application.
The Old Bell
- WRENN ID
- eternal-groin-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Tea rooms
- Address
- The Old Bell, 20, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 665 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80885, -2.47626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bell is an attached former inn, now functioning as tea rooms, dating from the late 16th century or later. The building has a coursed rubble-stone base up to the cill level, with walls made of knapped flint and chalk blocks that are banded. The area between the first-floor windows is rendered. It features a thatched roof with brick stacks located at the left gable, the ridge center, and the right party wall.
The structure is two storeys high and has three windows on the front. The ground floor includes three and four-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, each with separate labels above. The windows are fitted with iron casements and fixed lead lights. On the first floor, there are three-light wooden casements that have a horizontal glazing bar and wooden cills. The front door, positioned to the right of center, has a depressed-arch head, a plank-and-muntin design, and a wooden lintel. The interior and rear wing are likely of historic importance but were not inspected.
Local climate
The Old Bell receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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