Bell House

Bell House is an inn that has been converted into a house, believed to date from the 17th century, though it may include elements from a pre-Reformation hostel linked to Chapel Plaister. The building is constructed of rubble stone and features stone tiled roofs, coped gables, and a roof that is hipped at the south-west angle. It has an L-shaped plan and stands one and a half to two storeys tall.

The west front displays an original range of two dormer gables, each with recessed hollow-moulded two-light windows and hoodmoulds. There is a similar window on the ground floor next to a former door in a flush frame. A stack is located at the north end. An 18th-century drawing by L.H. Grimm from 1790 shows a three-light window next to the door. An addition at the north end, not depicted in the 1790 drawing, includes a north end stack, a dormer gable with a similar two-light window and hood, and a ground floor casement.

The south front is two-storey with a ridge stack and a wallface stack to the left. It features an upper three-light flush cyma-moulded window and a two-light recessed cyma-moulded window. The ground floor has a two-light recessed cyma-moulded window with a hood, a 20th-century glazed door with a drip over it, and two pairs of casements from the 19th and 20th centuries. The east end wall has 19th-century casements and a corner stack. The rear includes one upper two-light flush bead-moulded window and one bead-moulded ground floor eight-pane window, along with a lean-to addition. There is an inner segmental arched stone doorway with a dripstone.

In the 18th century, the Bell Inn was associated with the highwayman John Poulter, known as Tom Baxter.