The Blue Bell

THE BLUE BELL, A697

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1371001
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
The Blue Bell
Statutory Address:
THE BLUE BELL, A697
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1371001
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
The Blue Bell
Statutory Address 1:
THE BLUE BELL, A697

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

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 BLUE BELL, A697

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ford
National Grid Reference:
NT 91098 38256

Details

FORD A 697 NT 93 NW (West side) 10/63 The Blue Bell II

Public house, formerly a coaching inn. Late C18. Brick in English Garden Wall Bond. Slightly later additions to rear, random rubble with ashlar dressings; pantiled roofs.

Main block 2 storeys, 3 bays. 12-pane sashes in plain reveals with flat brick arches. Right bay has 9-pane sash on 1st floor and, on ground floor, projecting single-storey one-bay wing with 12-pane sash. Gabled roof with tumbled-in brickwork. Two C20 brick ridge stacks.

Attached to right a slightly-later single-storey extension also in brick, extended to right in stone later in C19.

Doorway to rear.

Extension to rear has to left a two-storey, one-bay section with 12-pane sashes and to right a single-storey, 2-bay section.

Listing NGR: NT9109838256

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Legacy System number:
238031
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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