The Bell Inn
THE BELL INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223820
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE BELL INN, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-09-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/03929/13
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223820
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BELL INN, 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 31041 64332
Details
MINSTER HIGH STREET TR 3064-3164 West Side) 5/30 The Bell Inn (formerly 11-10-63 listed as Nos. 1 and 2) GV II Public House. C16, reclad mid C19 and extended. Timber framed and rendered on ground floor with ornamental tile hanging on first floor with plain tiled roof. Extended with yellow stock brick and slate roof. Timber framed range: 2 storeys with moulded eaves cornice to hipped roof with 4 hipped dormers and stacks to end left and rear left. Four glazing bar sashes on first floor and 2 to right and 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes to left on ground floor. Central half-glazed door. Extension to left (the Tea Gardens): 2 storeys curved in double curve around road corner. Brick corbelled eaves cornice to irregularly hipped roof, with stack to left and 2 lead capped ventilators. One glazing bar sash on each floor, and blank window space to left on first floor, all with painted heads. Half-glazed door to right. Interior: altered, but frame still partly visible.
Listing NGR: TR3103264332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419695
- 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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