Description

SAXMUNDHAM

TM3863 HIGH STREET
841-1/3/17 (West side)
06/09/74 No.31
Bell Hotel

GV II

Coaching inn, now hotel. 1842. Gault brick, colourwashed on
ground floor; slate hipped roof with stack on rear roof slope.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 5-window front. Central door with margin
lights behind a shallow porch of two Tuscan columns supporting
plain entablature. Ground and first floor windows are sashes
with 6/6 glazing bars under gauged skewback arches. Five 3/3
sash windows to attic floor, also with gauged skewback arches.
Left return partly obscured by screen wall of the adjacent
Market Hall (qv). Right return: tripartite sashes.
INTERIOR: stick baluster staircase with ramped and wreathed
handrail. Plain undecorated Assembly Room on first floor.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth: 1974-:
412).

Listing NGR: TM3866363155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558534

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)