Five Bells is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
Five Bells
- WRENN ID
- sombre-hinge-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Five Bells, High Street, Ludgershall, HP18 9PF
- OS grid reference
- SP 659 173
- Coordinates
- 51.85061, -1.04388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Bells is a house dating from the 17th and early 18th century. It is located on High Street, Ludgershall. The front of the house has a timber frame construction; two bays on the right feature diagonal bracing, colourwashed render infill, and a rendered plinth. The left bay has lighter timber framing and colourwashed brick infill. The left gable has been rebuilt in brick, while the right gable is weatherboarded, and the rear wall is of rubble stone. The roof is thatched and half-hipped to the left. Brick chimneys are present to the right and between the left bays, with the latter having been rebuilt. The house is in an L-shape. It has one and a half storeys and three bays. The windows are irregular 2 and 3-light, 20th-century leaded casements, with two upper windows set into the thatch. A 20th-century door leads to a gabled porch between the left bays. A low thatched wing extends to the rear.
Local climate
Five Bells sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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