Bell Hotel
BELL HOTEL, 12, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194809
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- BELL HOTEL, 12, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194809
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL HOTEL, 12, MARKET HILL
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 HOTEL, 12, MARKET HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clare
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77012 45392
Details
1. CLARE CLARE 2006 Market Hill (East Side) No 12 (Bell Hotel) TL 74 NE 19/90 19.12.61.
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2. A timber-framed and plastered building which seems always to have been an inn and in the C16 was known as the Green Dragon. A wing extends to the East at the rear, on Cavendish Road. Considerably altered in the C18 and later and renovated in the C20. The west front has sham timber-framing. 2 storeys and cellars. 5 window range on the Market Hill front and 3 window range on the Cavendish Road front, double-hung sashes in flush cased frames, mainly with glazing bars. C19 and C20 doorways. Roof tiled. The interior has good ceilings with exposed moulded ceiling joists and a carved main beam with folded-leaf ornamentation.
All the listed buildings in Market Hill with all the listed buildings in Church Street, all the listed buildings in Station Road and all the listed buildings in Well Lane form a group.
Listing NGR: TL7701245392
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 283007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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