The Bell Inn and Attached Wall and Coach House
THE BELL INN AND ATTACHED WALL AND COACH HOUSE, 4, TOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372310
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn and Attached Wall and Coach House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BELL INN AND ATTACHED WALL AND COACH HOUSE, 4, TOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372310
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell Inn and Attached Wall and Coach House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BELL INN AND ATTACHED WALL AND COACH HOUSE, 4, TOWER 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 AND ATTACHED WALL AND COACH HOUSE, 4, TOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launceston
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3319284709
Details
LAUNCESTON
SX32843384 TOWER STREET
660-1/4/181 No.4
27/02/50 The Bell Inn and attached wall and
Coach House
(Formerly Listed as:
TOWER STREET
No.4
The Bell Inn)
GV II
Public house. C15 doorway and later altered; coach house
mid/late C19. Painted rubble, and slatehanging on studwork to
jettied upper floors on left and 2nd floor on right; asbestos
slate roof; dry slate hipped roof on coach house.
Shallow-depth plan. 3 storeys; 2-window range. C20 windows;
original pointed-arched C15 double roll-moulded granite
doorway on the left with late C19 door; C17 moulded and
chamfered granite outer frame of window on its right. C20
window and late C19 pointed-arched doorway to far right. Coach
house has symmetrical 2-window front with segmental brick
arches over leaded light to bottom half of 1st floor with-hand
window; shuttered windows to ground floor and central
1st-floor loading doorway over wide doorway with pair of
ledged doors. INTERIOR of public house has C18 moulded ceiling
cornice to ground floor roof and some late C19 Gothic style
features. HISTORY: the Bell Inn was the 1st meeting place of
Launceston Odd Fellows (July 10th 1860).
(Robbins AF: Launceston, Past and Present: Launceston: 1888-:
P.372).
Listing NGR: SX3319284709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370134
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robbins, A F, Launceston Past and Present, (1888), 372
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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