The Old Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Inn, cottage.
The Old Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-rafter-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn, cottage
- Address
- The Old Bell Cottage, East Knoyle
- OS grid reference
- ST 878 311
- Coordinates
- 51.07966, -2.17473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bell Cottage is a detached cottage that was originally an inn, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of English bond brick and features a thatched roof with coped verges and brick stacks at the gable ends. The building is two stories tall and has three windows across its front.
The entrance is a four-panelled door located to the left of the center, with a 3-light leaded casement window to the left and a 2-light wooden casement window to the right. On the first floor, there are two 2-light leaded casements and one 3-light leaded casement.
At the rear, there is a gabled porch with another four-panelled door. To the left of the porch, there are three windows: a 2-light casement and a single-light casement, while to the right, there is a 6-pane fixed window and a 2-light casement. The first floor at the rear has one 3-light leaded casement and two 2-light leaded casements, along with a 20th-century attic dormer. The left side of the building features a single-light casement in the attic. The interior was not accessible during the survey conducted in August 1986.
Local climate
The Old Bell Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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