Description

LAUNCESTON

SX32843384 TOWER STREET
660-1/4/181 No.4
27/02/50 The Bell Inn and attached wall and
Coach House
(Formerly Listed as:
TOWER STREET
No.4
The Bell Inn)

GV II

Public house. C15 doorway and later altered; coach house
mid/late C19. Painted rubble, and slatehanging on studwork to
jettied upper floors on left and 2nd floor on right; asbestos
slate roof; dry slate hipped roof on coach house.
Shallow-depth plan. 3 storeys; 2-window range. C20 windows;
original pointed-arched C15 double roll-moulded granite
doorway on the left with late C19 door; C17 moulded and
chamfered granite outer frame of window on its right. C20
window and late C19 pointed-arched doorway to far right. Coach
house has symmetrical 2-window front with segmental brick
arches over leaded light to bottom half of 1st floor with-hand
window; shuttered windows to ground floor and central
1st-floor loading doorway over wide doorway with pair of
ledged doors. INTERIOR of public house has C18 moulded ceiling
cornice to ground floor roof and some late C19 Gothic style
features. HISTORY: the Bell Inn was the 1st meeting place of
Launceston Odd Fellows (July 10th 1860).
(Robbins AF: Launceston, Past and Present: Launceston: 1888-:
P.372).

Listing NGR: SX3319284709

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26653438

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