Bell and Crown Inn

The Bell and Crown Inn, located at 59 and 61 Catherine Street, is a building with origins dating back to the 14th century, although it has been altered in the 18th century and later. It occupies a corner site with Ivy Street. The inn is two stories high, featuring a ground floor made of colourwashed brick and an oversailing first floor covered with colourwashed mathematical tiles, with a timber frame behind. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, covered with old tiles.

The front facing Catherine Street has three first-floor windows, which are flush framed sashes with intact glazing bars from the 18th century. The ground floor has two similar windows with a glazed door between them on the right side, while the left side features a small late 19th-century shop front with flanking pilasters and a four-light thin mullioned window. The Ivy Street front has five 18th-century flush framed sashes with glazing bars on the first floor, and three similar but larger windows on the ground floor, along with glazed double doors.

Inside, the first floor displays wall posts and bracing, and two bays of the roof facing Ivy Street retain trussed rafters, collars, collar purlins, and crown posts from the 14th century.