Description

MALDON

TL8407SE SILVER STREET
574-1/6/193 (East side)
24/09/71 No.2
The Bell
(Formerly Listed as:
SILVER STREET
(East side)
No.2
Bell House)

GV II

Public house, now house. Early C19 with earlier origins and
late C16 rear range. Main frontage block is timber-framed and
rendered with Gault brick front and half-hipped plain tile
roof with large square stack through front roof slope and
stack to rear wall; timber-framed cottage range to east with
gabled plain tile roof and render. L-plan complex.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey with attic and cellar; 3-window range;
one-storey-and-attic rear range. Two C20 segmental roofed
dormers behind plain parapet. String band of 2 projecting
courses above small-paned sash window with gauged brick flat
arch either side of a central blind opening with semicircular
brick arch. Ground floor has central entrance with
semicircular head and panelled keystone and imposts enclosing
semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars; reeded
surround and contemporary 6-panel door with 2 top panels
glazed. Flight of 3 steps with early C19 wrought-iron
handrails with boot scrapers. C19 canted flat-roofed bay
windows with unsubdivided sashes either side. Black rendered
plinth with cellar light. Elaborate wrought-iron knocker on
1st floor for inn sign. South flank is rendered with square
sash window to attic with single central vertical glazing bar.
1st floor has one flush sash window with moulded surround and
one vertical glazing bar. Ground floor has large horizontal
casement of 8 lights to exposed timber-framing and open
pedimented doorcase with triangular-topped fanlight with
Gothic glazing. Cottage to rear has gabled plain tile roof
with four C20 gabled dormers each with 2-light casements and
single horizontal glazing bar. Ground floor has 4 small-paned
sashes with margin glazing and one small square window. East
facing gable has one C20 small-paned sash. Single-storey slate
roofed conservatory lean-to on rear of main block.
INTERIOR: main block has shutters on main front and north
ground-floor room of main block has C19 public house-type
panelling with restored stencil patterns and reused etched

glass from front. Cottage range is late C16 house, now much
altered, with main framing and tie beams substantially in
situ.

Listing NGR: TL8493307094

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Bell official website
• Wikidata Q26547934

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)