Description

SJ 2829 SE OSWESTRY C.P. CHURCH STREET (east side)

15/37 No. 61 (The Bell Inn)
(formerly listed as
10.9.51 Bell Inn)

GV II

House, now inn. Late C15, re-modelled late C18 with later additions
and alterations. Rendered brick concealing and partly replacing timber
frame, slate roof. 2 storeys; 4-window front, plate-glass sashes across
first floor, late C20 casements to left and right on ground floor,
latter to canted bay of late C19 shop or inn front, 4-panel and half-
glazed doors with pilastered surrounds to right of centre (also
within shop front); prominent rendered stack in front of ridge immediately
to left of centre. Passageway to far left has massive plank and muntin
outer door with pointed strap hinges; framing: exposed in left wall
(square panels and long straight tension brace) and right wall of
passage (close studding with middle rail); outer doorway has mortice
holes for former vertical posts and singed head. Interior: richly moulded cross-beam
ceiling in ground-floor room to right of stack, similar spine beam in
left-hand room has heavy joists with ogee and straight-cut stops,
also evidence for former jetty to front; partly infilled inglenook
fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Left gable end is visible
through window in right gable end of No. 59, Church Street (q.v.):
square panels (several with wattle and daub and lathe and plaster infill)
and cambered collar and tie beam with vertical struts.

Listing NGR: SJ2890229321

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306001

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas