Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 September 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to a change of building use and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 85 SE
4/29

HARRIETSHAM
EAST STREET (south-west side)
Bell House

(Formerly listed as The Bell Inn)

26.4.68.

GV
II
Former public house. C16 or earlier wing, front range 1729. Front range: ground floor coursed galletted stone, first floor painted brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Two storeys on moulded stone plinth. Plat band under three of first floor windows only. Boxed eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Rear stack to left end. Regular fenestration of four glazing bar sashes in open boxes. Ground floor has late C19 sashes with horns. Half-glazed and panelled door with plain rectangular fanlight under second window from left. Heavy late C19 bracketted hood over door, with dentilled frieze and moulded triangular pediment. Datestone to first floor. Rear wing to left: in two sections. Timber-framed, tile-hung, with plain tile roof. Single bay adjoining front range two storeys, with large red brick stack at rear end, in right slope of roof. Approximately two further timber-framed bays with more steeply pitched roof, also two storeys, with lean-to to left side, hip to rear, and small stack. Short right return wing C19, brick and tile-hung, two storeys.

Interior only partly inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ8704052442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26375942

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