Old Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1984. Inn.
Old Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- stranded-terrace-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1984
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Old Bell Inn, the Square, Banwell
- OS grid reference
- ST 398 590
- Coordinates
- 51.32748, -2.86397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bell Inn is an inn dating from the early 17th century, with a refacing from the early 19th century. It features a rendered exterior and a pantile roof with raised coped verges. The building is two storeys high and has five windows. To the left, there is a square-headed coach entry with boarded doors, and an off-centre right 20th-century door situated between large pane sash windows from the late 19th century. The first floor has 16-light glazing bar sashes separated by recessed blanks, and all windows are flanked by 20th-century mock shutters. Inside, both front rooms have ceilings with ovolo and ogee moulded frames.
Local climate
Old Bell Inn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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