The Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Inn.
The Bell Inn
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Bell Inn, Main Street, Willersey
- OS grid reference
- SP 105 395
- Coordinates
- 52.0545, -1.84699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell Inn is a 17th-century inn with a 19th-century extension on the left side. There is also a 20th-century red brick extension at the rear, which is not considered of listing quality. The main body of the building is constructed from ashlar stone and features a projecting stone plinth. It has a stone slate roof with flat coping on the gable ends and dormers that have roll-cross saddles and open work finials. At both ends of the main body, there are tall, twin, diagonal gable end stacks, each adorned with diamond decoration in low relief on all four sides.
The 19th-century extension on the left is made of coursed squared dressed limestone and has a limestone slate roof. It features an ashlar gable end stack with a moulded top, string, and skirting, also decorated with diamond patterns. The main body of the inn is two storeys high with an attic, which is illuminated by two Cotswold dormers that contain two-light, flat chamfered, stone mullioned casements with glazing bars and stopped hoods above. There are single bull's-eye windows with rusticated surrounds above the main body, which has two windows. The windows are either two, three, or four-light stone mullioned casements, all with glazing bars. One two-light window on the lower right has an ovolo moulded mullion, and there is a continuous string course above the ground and first-floor windows. The central entrance features a 20th-century unpainted plank door with cover strips and a single light. The left extension has one three-light 19th-century window with a segmental head on the first floor and two-light windows on the ground floor, all with glazing bars.
Local climate
The Bell Inn receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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