The Bell And Crown Public House

The Bell and Crown Public House is a long, two-storey building that has long been the center of life in Warminster Common. It likely replaced an earlier inn and dates from the late 18th century. The building features local rubblework with ashlar quoins, brick flat arches, and dressings. On the first floor, there are six windows with glazing bar sashes and flush moulded frames. The ground floor has two similar windows and an off-center bay window. There are two doors with moulded frames; one is to the right of the bay and has cut brackets supporting a flat hood over a 12-panel (flush type) two-leaf door, while the other door to the left is off-center and formerly had a triangular hood. The left-hand openings have been altered for lavatory arrangements. The building has a slate roof with coped verges and three brick ridge chimneys. There is a two-and-a-half storey extension on the return to Chapel Street, which features brick pigeon holes on the right-hand side of the gable. Of additional interest is the cast iron street sign for "Chapel Street" on the return to Chapel Street, which is one of several signs on the Common installed by an improvement committee that included local evangelist John Daniell in 1834.