The Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pavement-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Bell Inn, Estcourt Street, Devizes, SN10 1LQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 008 614
- Coordinates
- 51.35242, -1.98853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Inn is a late 18th-century building located on Estcourt Street. It is two storeys high and faced with Bath stone. The central sign panel displays the inscription "Wines, Spirits and Ales" along with a painting of a large bell and the motto "Fear God and Honour the Queen." There is a first-floor string course, a narrow cornice, and a parapet with coping that conceals the gable end slate roof.
The right side of the front features two shallow bows, each with two lights and a central mullion, containing sashes with intact glazing bars on both floors. The first-floor windows are adorned with bold curved wire lattice flower guards. The central panel between the bows likely indicates a former doorway on the ground floor.
On the left side of the front, stone piers extend into a frieze, with the first-floor sill course breaking forward over them. There are three recessed sash windows with glazing bars set in wide panels. The ground floor has paired windows with stone mullions, one of which has been converted into a bar door. The main entrance is located in a slightly projecting bay, where the sill course is also broken. It features a recessed door with six panels, two of which are glazed, and a window above in a slight rectangular recess.
Local climate
The Bell Inn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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