The Bell is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Public house.
The Bell
- WRENN ID
- fallen-ledge-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bell, High Street, North Marston
- OS grid reference
- SP 775 227
- Coordinates
- 51.8978, -0.87465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell is a public house dating from the late 18th century. It features chequered brickwork with a whitewashed rendered plinth and dentilled brick eaves. The roof is covered with old tiles and has brick coped gables with flanking brick chimneys. The building stands two storeys high and has four bays. The ground floor is double fronted, with barred sash windows in canted bay windows on the left and segmental-headed 19th-century three-light wooden casements on the right. The first floor has three three-light barred wooden casements. The left door is from the 20th century and has a flat wooden hood supported by cut brackets, while the right door is also from the 20th century but features a segmental head. The left gable includes a moulded brick plinth, plain band courses for the first and second floors, and two blocked round windows on the first floor. There is a rendered one-bay wing at the rear.
Local climate
The Bell sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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