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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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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Date:: 2001-09-21
Reference:: IOE01/04433/15
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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 370134
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.