Bell Inn
BELL INN, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135882
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Inn
- Statutory Address:
- BELL INN, THE STREET
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- 2001-06-03
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135882
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL INN, THE 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:
- BELL INN, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waltham St. Lawrence
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 82968 76910
Details
WALTHAM ST LAWRENCE THE STREET SU 8276-8376 (east side)
20/6 Bell Inn 25.3.55 G.V. II*
Inn, now public house. c1400, altered late C16. Timber frame, part painted brick and part painted render infill; old tile gabled roof. Wealden plan with one framed bay hall and two, 2-framed bay cross wings. The left hand wing contains the cross passage. 2 storeys and cellar. Chimney on right gable end. Leaded casement windows, some probably early C18. Road (west) front: symmetrical. Centre section recessed with coved eaves and large braces to front wall plate; jettied cross wings underbuilt in brick. Centre section has a 3-light window on first floor within coved eaves, and C19 square bay window on ground floor. Left-hand wing has a 2-light window on first floor and a 3-light window on ground floor with bottom-hinged folding shutter. On the right is a 4-centred arched door to the cross passage with old plank door. 3 large, plain jetty brackets. Right hand wing has a 2-light window on first floor, and a 3-light window on ground floor with similar shutter; and a 4-centred arched door with chamfered frame and a C20 plank door. 3 large jetty brackets. South gable has some replacement timbers. North gable adjoins Bell Cottage listed separately (20/5). Interior: fine timber frame exposed with heavy section timbers. Cross passage has two, 4-centred arched openings to former service wing which is now in part a cellar. Chamfered joists with chamfers and plain stops inserted probably C16, within former hall. C17 panelling in ground floor of right hand wing, which also contains a window with diamond mullions and transoms, moulded on the inside. Behind the C19 bay window in the centre is another older window with a shutter groove. Redundant crown post roof, with side purlins and wind braces, and smoke-blackened timbers over former hall. All the posts have large jowls and there are large tension braces on the first floor.
V.C.H., Vol.III, p.179, B.O.E.(Berkshire), p.251.
Listing NGR: SU8296876910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40988
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 251
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 179
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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