Old Bell Cottage and British Legion Club is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. House, club.
Old Bell Cottage and British Legion Club
- WRENN ID
- fading-render-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- House, club
- Address
- Old Bell Cottage and British Legion Club, High Street, Bisley-With-Lypiatt
- OS grid reference
- SO 904 059
- Coordinates
- 51.75175, -2.13977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bell Cottage and the British Legion Club is a building originally comprising a row of houses, now functioning as a house and a club. It dates from the late 17th century to the early 18th century, with part of it altered in 1953 to create the clubhouse. The structure is made from random and coursed rubble limestone, featuring ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. It is two stories high with an attic, and the row steps down the hill.
The front of Old Bell Cottage, located on the right, has two upper floor casements with chamfered mullions beneath a combined hoodmould; there is a three-light window to the left and a two-light window to the right. On the ground floor, there is a three-light restored casement next to a lean-to porch. A central gabled roof dormer is mounted at the eaves. The slightly projecting section of the building to the left has a large upper floor casement with mullions and transoms beneath an earlier hoodmould, and two timber ground floor casements grouped under a hoodmould. To the left, there is an original two-light casement with separate hoodmoulds for each floor. Further south, the part altered for the British Legion features three two-light casements, a large blocked three-centred archway with a small oval window above, and a circular upper floor window. Ridge-mounted chimneys are present. At the north end, there is a gable end with a central porch, a two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement above, flanked by 20th-century single-light casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old Bell Cottage and British Legion Club receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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