Building record 1171400000 - FIVE BELLS, HIGH STREET

Grade II. House. C17 and early C18. Front has timber frame: 2 right bays with diagonal braces, colourwashed render infill and rendered plinth; left bay with slighter framing and colourwashed brick infill. Left gable rebuilt in brick, right gable weatherboarded, rear wall of rubble stone. Thatched roof, half-hipped to left. Chimneys of thin brick to right and between left bays, the latter rebuilt. L-plan. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Irregular 2 and 3-light C20 leaded casements, the 2 upper windows in thatch. C20 door and gabled porch between left bays. Low thatched wing to rear. RCHM I p. 250. Mon. 4 (B1).
Buildings report dated Nov 1977 - Nov 1978 held at NMR (B3).
A barn attached to the rear of Five Bells Farmhouse, built in the Post-Medieval period. It is constructed of rubble stone and brick, the south elevation rebuilt with modern breeze blocks. When it was photographed in 1977 by the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments the timber frame of the roof was bare. In that year an application to demolish the barn was made. The reccomendation at that time was that it should be preserved, but it is not known if this building is still extant (B5).
Description in B5 does not fit the description or location of the surviving barn. No buildng at the rear of the Five Bells is shown on the first or second edition OS maps, or the 1780 Enclosure Map.