Description

WARMINSTER DEVERILL ROAD 1. 5411 (West Side) No 66, Bell Hill (The Bell and Crown Public House) ST 8644 3/200

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2. A long 2 storey building; has long been the centre of Warminster Common life. An earlier inn probably preceded it. Late c18. Local rubblework with ashlar quoins and brick flat arches and dressings. 6 windows on 1st floor, glazing bar sashes with flush moulded frames. 2 similar on ground floor and an off centre bay window. 2 doors with moulded frames, one to right of bay with cut brackets.to flat hood and 12 panel (flush type) 2 leaf doors; door to left off centre, formerly had a triangular hood. Left hand openings altered by lavatory arrangements. Slate roof with coped verges and 3 brick ridge chimneys. 2 1/2 storey extension on return to Chapel Street; brick pigeon holes in right hand side of gable. Of additional interest is the cast iron street sign "Chapel Street") on return to Chapel Street. It is one of a fair number on the Common, affixed by an improvement committee, on which the local evangelist John Daniell sat, in 1834.

Listing NGR: ST8684844240

External Links

• Wikidata Q26287808

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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