Old Bell Cottage and Middle Bell Cottage and Old Bell House

OLD BELL COTTAGE AND MIDDLE BELL COTTAGE AND OLD BELL HOUSE, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382457
Date first listed:
05-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Old Bell Cottage and Middle Bell Cottage and Old Bell House
Statutory Address:
OLD BELL COTTAGE AND MIDDLE BELL COTTAGE AND OLD BELL HOUSE, THE GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382457
Date first listed:
05-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Jan-2000
List Entry Name:
Old Bell Cottage and Middle Bell Cottage and Old Bell House
Statutory Address 1:
OLD BELL COTTAGE AND MIDDLE BELL COTTAGE AND OLD BELL HOUSE, THE GREEN

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
OLD BELL COTTAGE AND MIDDLE BELL COTTAGE AND OLD BELL HOUSE, THE GREEN

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Tanworth-in-Arden
National Grid Reference:
SP 11373 70587

Details

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP1170 THE GREEN
652-1/9/163 (South East side)
05/04/67 Old Bell Cottage, Middle Bell
Cottage and Old Bell House
(Formerly Listed as:
LANE RUNNING NORTH OF CHURCH
(East side)
Tanworth-In-Arden
Old Bell Cottages)

GV II

Formerly known as: Old Bell Cottage, Little Home and Old Bell
House THE GREEN.
Inn, now 3 houses. C17 with C18 rebuilding and later additions
and alterations, in 2 stages of build. Reddish-brown brick in
English garden wall bond to house to left, otherwise Flemish
bond. Small timber-framing to left gable end. Gabled
plain-tile roofs. Long rectangular plan with taller rear
off-centre wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-window range altogether. 4 entrances,
from left: C20 part-glazed door, 4-panelled door in wood
doorcase, C20 plank door and C20 garage door. These alternate
with canted bay windows with multi-pane casements, those to
right are metal. First floor has metal casement windows with
glazing bars in wood-framed surrounds with one and 3 lights,
from left to right: 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 1 and 3 lights.
Wrought-iron casement fasteners. Crown glass. Brick dentilled
eaves cornice. 3 ridge stacks and external left stack.
INTERIOR: Old Bell Cottage (left): small cupboard with plank
doors and butterfly hinges to entrance hall; chamfered beams
and plank doors; first floor has small amount of
close-studding to front, left room and to centre; right room
has jowled stud, tie-beam and brace; curved braces and purlin;
wall plate exposed. Middle Bell Cottage has inglenook
fireplace.
All the listed buildings on The Green form a group.


Listing NGR: SP1137370587

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
482841
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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