Bluebell Inn PH is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Telephone exchange.
Bluebell Inn PH
- WRENN ID
- odd-cloister-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff North MP: Anna McMorrin (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Telephone exchange
- Address
- Bluebell Inn PH, St Mellons, Old St. Mellons
- OS grid reference
- ST 229 813
- Coordinates
- 51.52576, -3.11199
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bluebell Inn Public House is a long inn constructed of scored-rendered stone, featuring a predominantly Welsh slate roof with pantiles on the unit at the right end. It has brick corniced ridge and end stacks, with one lateral stack located at the rear. The building consists of three wings: the main central wing, a lower eaves wing stepped down to the left, and a small uphill wing to the right that has a steeper roof pitch. There is also an attached single-storey gabled cross wing with an unequal pitch roof, which may have been a former wash-house, and a further single-storey wing at the rear with a hipped roof and a curved wall.
The main central unit has a 3/3 pane casement window on the upper storey to the left and a small 4/4 pane casement window to the right. The ground floor frontage is mostly obscured by a later lean-to, but there is one 4-pane sash window to the right. To the left, the lower two-storey wing features a three-window range of plastic 4-pane windows, which are replacements for the original sashes and have slightly cambered heads. One of these windows is similar to the ground floor, while the others are hidden by the lean-to. A canopy continues around the gable end wall to the left. At the rear, there are two replaced 4-pane windows under the eaves of the main range, along with one casement and one sash window on the ground floor.
Inside, the different levels have been partly refurbished with light oak panelling that was popular between the wars, and there is a brick-arched fireplace.
Local climate
Bluebell Inn PH sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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