The Bell Hotel

The Bell Hotel is a hotel that features an early 19th-century re-fronting of a 17th-century building with an incomplete timber frame. At the rear, along Bell Alley, there are 17th-century timber-framed blocks, as well as brick outbuildings from the late 19th century. The main northern front is finished in whitewashed render, with a rusticated ground floor and highlighted by giant Doric pilasters, a moulded plinth, a cornice, and a band course at the first-floor level. The building has a slate roof and three rendered chimneys, and it is two storeys tall with three bays.

On the ground floor, there are canted bay windows, each featuring two 4-pane sash windows at the front, a lozenge-patterned frieze, and a moulded cornice. The first floor has wide triple-hung sashes within architrave surrounds, topped with wooden cornices on scroll brackets. A six-panelled door is located between the left-hand bays, framed by a wooden surround with Doric half-columns, entablature blocks, and a pediment. Above the door, a section of the first-floor wall is flanked by pilasters. Inside, the ground floor room has a painted curved brace, while the interior of the 17th-century section at the rear features moulded ceiling beams.