The Bell Inn
THE BELL INN, 95, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127671
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE BELL INN, 95, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127671
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BELL INN, 95, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BELL INN, 95, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 56304 46824
Details
TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET (North Side)
16/137 No. 95 (The Bell 22.11.67 Inn)
GV II
Restaurant formerly an inn. Mid C16 with C17 additions and later alterations. Timber-framed rendered, and exposed; east yable partly weatherboarded. Plastered plinth. Plain tile roofs. Red brick ridge stack to left of centre. Two storeys with rear outshuts and stair turret, original three unit plan with continuous jetty to main elevation. Five timber-framed bays, close-studded with wide tension braces trenched behind studs and nailed, exposed at first floor which formerly had bolection moulded plaster panels (qv Nos. 79 and 81). Panelled door to main entrance approached by steps recessed into C19 passage cut through chimney stack. Boarded door to east in cross passage position. Two ground floor metal casement windows and one oriel window to left of entrance. Three first floor casement windows with C20 leaded lights. Interior: Original plan altered, service partition removed and entry to staircase opposite stack sealed. Roll and hollow chamfered moulding to floor joists. Some C17 carved panelling and frieze panels, octagonal newel post to staircase. The inn has been called The Bell from c.1670; 'Ms 48th Reg 1814' painted on a beam (Palmer).
Palmer, W.M. and Morley, Photographic Collection pl.27 1913, CC Palmer, W.M. The Antiquities of Linton, pll 1913 CC R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H. Vol. VI p83 Stevens, R.L. Linton, P.C.Pub. p55. 1983
Listing NGR: TL5630446824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 83
Stevens, R L, Linton, ()
Palmer, W M, The Antiquities of Linton, (1913), 11
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
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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