Old Bell Inn
OLD BELL INN, 1 AND 3, STOKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235600
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bell Inn
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BELL INN, 1 AND 3, STOKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235600
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bell Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BELL INN, 1 AND 3, STOKE 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:
- OLD BELL INN, 1 AND 3, STOKE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Ipswich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16360 43881
Details
1. 1260 STOKE STREET
Nos 1 and 3 (Old Bell Inn) TM 14 SE 12/232 19.12.51.
II
2. An early C16 timber-framed and plastered building with an L shaped plan, considerably altered in the C18 and later. The upper storey is jettied on the north front and west side. The west side has the best of the C16 features. The ground storey and a wing extending south have exposed timber-framing and the jettied upper storey has exposed joists and a partly carved bressumer. There is also a moulded wall plate, partly embattled, an original window with moulded mullions and a carved corner post with the carving of a bell. The north front has mainly C18 fenestration, 3 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in flush cased frames. The ground storey has a central doorway with the remains of the old head and one carved spandrel and a C19 public house front. Roofs tiled.
Listing NGR: TM1636043881
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426378
- 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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