The Bell Inn
THE BELL INN, STOWMARKET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262830
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE BELL INN, STOWMARKET ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00453/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262830
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BELL INN, STOWMARKET ROAD
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, STOWMARKET ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Blakenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 11480 51563
Details
GREAT BLAKENHAM STOWMARKET ROAD TM 15 SW 3/57 The Bell Inn - - II Public House. Early C19 with core of late C16 or early C17. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Painted red brick with dentilled eaves cornice. Plaintiled roofs with end chimneys of red brick. Sash windows with flat arches; flush frames and small-pane sashes. 6-panelled entrance door and open gabled porch with walls of painted brick and gabled plaintiled roof; round-arched opening with splayed reveals, and above it an open niche of similar form. To right is a small C20 lean-to extension. Immediately behind the main range is a small house of late C16 or early C17; 1 storey and attics with a hall range and cross-wing. Timber-framed and plastered, partly encased in painted brick. Roman pantiled roof. Some unmoulded framing is exposed in the cross-wing. Believed to have been known as Bluebell Farm in c.1830.
Listing NGR: TM1148051563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433476
- 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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