Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House.

Bell House

WRENN ID
little-gargoyle-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 March 1985
Type
House
Address
Bell House, Presteigne
OS grid reference
SO 312 646
Coordinates
52.2756, -3.00942
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bell House is a two-storey building featuring a three-window roughcast front and a rubble plinth. The structure has a higher cross-wing on the left and a checked back corner on the right. It is topped with tiled roofs, maintaining the original pitch, and has bargeboards on the left side. The right side has a shallow roof with raised eaves. There is a brick stack with a brickwork cornice and a massive second stack, which is in stages, at the left end. The windows are double-hung sash and case types set in flush frames with glazing bars. There are two doors accessed by steps, and the rear has extensions covered with slate on brick.

Local climate

Bell House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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