The Bell Hotel

The Bell Hotel is a building dating from 1605, located on Bland's Cliff. The south front is a late 18th century, three-storey brick structure with four bays. It features a large segmental bow with a panelled apron and cornice in the right-hand first-floor bay. Early 19th century cast iron balconies display an acanthus and scroll pattern on the remaining first-floor windows. The left-hand bay contains a five-panel door with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by later windows. The right-hand end of the south front and the east front were extended in the early 19th century with a stuccoed block that has three storeys and an attic, complete with strings at the cill levels and vermiculated quoins. The east front has five bays, including two-storey angular bays in the centre and at the right, with a similar three-storey bay to the left. There is a double six-panel door in a Greek Doric porch, which features an entablature and triglyph frieze in the second bay from the left. The Bell Hotel, along with the listed buildings in Prospect Place, forms a group.