Description

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET
(North Side)

16/137 No. 95 (The Bell
22.11.67 Inn)

GV II

Restaurant formerly an inn. Mid C16 with C17 additions and later
alterations. Timber-framed rendered, and exposed; east yable partly
weatherboarded. Plastered plinth. Plain tile roofs. Red brick ridge stack
to left of centre. Two storeys with rear outshuts and stair turret, original
three unit plan with continuous jetty to main elevation. Five timber-framed
bays, close-studded with wide tension braces trenched behind studs and
nailed, exposed at first floor which formerly had bolection moulded plaster
panels (qv Nos. 79 and 81). Panelled door to main entrance approached by
steps recessed into C19 passage cut through chimney stack. Boarded door to
east in cross passage position. Two ground floor metal casement windows and
one oriel window to left of entrance. Three first floor casement windows
with C20 leaded lights. Interior: Original plan altered, service partition
removed and entry to staircase opposite stack sealed. Roll and hollow
chamfered moulding to floor joists. Some C17 carved panelling and frieze
panels, octagonal newel post to staircase. The inn has been called The Bell
from c.1670; 'Ms 48th Reg 1814' painted on a beam (Palmer).

Palmer, W.M. and Morley, Photographic Collection pl.27 1913, CC
Palmer, W.M. The Antiquities of Linton, pll 1913 CC
R.C.H.M. Report 1951
V.C.H. Vol. VI p83
Stevens, R.L. Linton, P.C.Pub. p55. 1983

Listing NGR: TL5630446824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26420556

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