The Bell

THE BELL, LOWER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1117843
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
The Bell
Statutory Address:
THE BELL, LOWER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1117843
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
The Bell
Statutory Address 1:
THE BELL, LOWER ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE BELL, LOWER ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hardwick
National Grid Reference:
SP 80528 19265

Details

SP 81 NW HARDWICK LOWER ROAD

6/15 The Bell

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- II

Public house. Early C17, altered. Timber frame with diagonal braces, thin brick infill, mostly herringbone, and coursed rubble stone plinth. Old tile roof, central chimney of thin brick with double 'V' pilasters to front and single ones to sides. 2 storeys, 2 bays and lobby entry. Ground floor has C20 3-light barred metal casements. First floor has 3-light wooden casements with C20 glazing in hipped eaves-line dormers. Door in central C20 half-timbered and gabled porch. Small flanking rendered extensions, lower later range at right-angles to rear. RCHM II p. 143. Mon. 12.

Listing NGR: SP8052819265

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Legacy System number:
42164
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LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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