The Old Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Inn, detached house.
The Old Bell House
- WRENN ID
- standing-screen-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn, detached house
- Address
- The Old Bell House, Coulston
- OS grid reference
- ST 948 539
- Coordinates
- 51.28479, -2.07485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bell House is an inn that has been converted into a detached house, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features square-panelled timber framing, with some sections rebuilt in English garden wall bond brick, and has a triple ridge tiled roof with a brick stack. Originally designed with a baffle entry, the building is two storeys high and has three windows across its front.
The entrance includes a six-panelled door set in a beaded architrave, topped with a gabled canopy. To the right of the door is a 2-light casement window, while to the left are two 2-light casements and a blocked doorway. On the first floor, there are three 2-light casements.
A wing on the right side of the house features double planked segmental-headed doorways with a single casement window above, and the gable end facing the road has 2-light segmental-headed casements. Attached to the left are single and two-storey extensions that include 2-light casements and a pantiled roof. The rear of the building has planked doors and casements, with timber framing visible on the first floor. The interior was not accessible during the survey in July 1986.
Local climate
The Old Bell House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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