The Bell Hotel

THE BELL HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1228684
Date first listed:
04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
The Bell Hotel
Statutory Address:
THE BELL HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1228684
Date first listed:
04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
The Bell Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
THE BELL HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE

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 HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Winslow
National Grid Reference:
SP 76988 27546

Details

SP 7627 NE WINSLOW MARKET SQUARE (south side)

7/187 The Bell Hotel

4.6.52

GV II

Hotel. Early C19 re-fronting of C17 building with incomplete timber frame. C17 timber framed blocks to rear along Bell Alley, and over carriage entry to left of main front. Other brick outbuildings are late C19. Main N. front of whitewashed render, rusticated to ground floor and articulated with giant Doric pilasters, moulded plinth and cornice and band course at first floor level. Slate roof, 3 rendered chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Canted bay windows to ground floor, each with 2 4-pane sashes to front, lozenge patterned frieze and moulded cornice. Wide triple-hung sashes to first floor in architrave surrounds with wooden cornices on scroll brackets over. 6-panelled door between left-hand bays has wooden surround of Doric half-columns, entablature blocks and pediment. Section of first floor wall above door has flanking pilasters. Painted curved brace in ground floor room. Interior of C17 part to rear has moulded ceiling beams. RCHM II p 343 MON 12

Listing NGR: SP7698727538

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Legacy System number:
403349
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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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