This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SJ 2829 SE OSWESTRY C.P. CHURCH STREET (east side)
15/37 No. 61 (The Bell Inn) (formerly listed as 10.9.51 Bell Inn) GV II
House, now inn. Late C15, re-modelled late C18 with later additions and alterations. Rendered brick concealing and partly replacing timber frame, slate roof. 2 storeys; 4-window front, plate-glass sashes across first floor, late C20 casements to left and right on ground floor, latter to canted bay of late C19 shop or inn front, 4-panel and half- glazed doors with pilastered surrounds to right of centre (also within shop front); prominent rendered stack in front of ridge immediately to left of centre. Passageway to far left has massive plank and muntin outer door with pointed strap hinges; framing: exposed in left wall (square panels and long straight tension brace) and right wall of passage (close studding with middle rail); outer doorway has mortice holes for former vertical posts and singed head. Interior: richly moulded cross-beam ceiling in ground-floor room to right of stack, similar spine beam in left-hand room has heavy joists with ogee and straight-cut stops, also evidence for former jetty to front; partly infilled inglenook fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Left gable end is visible through window in right gable end of No. 59, Church Street (q.v.): square panels (several with wattle and daub and lathe and plaster infill) and cambered collar and tie beam with vertical struts.
Listing NGR: SJ2890229321
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0745 IOE Records taken by R L Francis; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr R L Francis. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Francis, R L
Rights Holder: Francis, R L
Brick, Daub, Lath, Plaster, Render, Slate, Timber, Wattle, Medieval House, Tudor Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling, Timber Framed House, Timber Framed Building, Inn, Commercial, Residential Building, Public House, Licensed Premises, Eating And Drinking Establishment, Recreational, Jettied House, Jettied Building
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