Bell Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Bell Hotel
- WRENN ID
- slow-spire-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Bell Hotel, 24, High Street, South Swindon, SN1 3EP
- OS grid reference
- SU 157 836
- Coordinates
- 51.55161, -1.77396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Hotel is a 19th-century hostelry located on the west side of High Street in Swindon, built on the site of an earlier inn that is believed to date back to 1515. The building features roughcast over rubble stonework and has a slate roof. It is three stories tall and consists of three bays, with a central entrance and a carriageway through the third bay leading to a rear yard. There is a stack that backs onto the carriageway.
Inside the yard, there are remains of a timber-framed gallery. The entrance is canopied, and there are canted bay windows on the ground and first floors, which have margin glazed sashes. The spandril panels feature carvings. The third-floor windows are four-pane sashes with architraves and bracketed sills that extend as a string course. The building is topped with a paired stone modillion cornice and has a bracketed sign displaying a very large gilded bell. The Bell Hotel is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Bell Hotel receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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