Bell House

We live in Bell House, at 14 Main Street, Coveney. It is a brick-built house with blue shutters towards the north of the village. The house is mainly Georgian or early Victorian, though parts of it are said to go back to about 1650. The village map preserved in the Village Hall and dated 1850 shows it in much its current state. It has been a pub (the Bell, hence the house name), the village shop, and a car restoration business. Currently it's just a house...

It is a simple 3-bedroom house, much hacked about from its origin as a one-room fisherman's cottage. Indeed, I tend to describe it as a late Georgian house with earlier additions.

We also have a menagerie living here...

Directions to get here.

A Guide. Photographs may appear soon...

Downstairs

Lounge

Dining Room
The main hub of the house, including the staircase. Romeo the budgie lives here, fulfilling his role as Cat TV.

Study
Marcia's private domain.

Kitchen
featuring the Rayburn oil stove. In need of refitting.

Annexe
The original room of the house. It now contains the beer fridge, the cook-book bookcase, and lots of other books.

Bathroom

Library
When it was built in the 18th century, squareness wasn't important. As a result, it has some custom-fitted bookcases, which emphasise by their squareness the irregulatity of the room. Tim's private domain, usually with a cat on the windowsill.

Upstairs

South Bedroom
Our bedroom.

Middle Bedroom
The Untidy Room, into which oddments get put for store.

North Bedroom
The main Guest Bedroom.

Bathroom

Outside
Garage
Built to house a steam traction engine, allegedly. Full of junk, though there is now room for a couple of cars in a corner. About 40' by 20', with a 10' by 10' office attached.

Gardens

On 28 Jan 2004 it was snowing.

Running at BellHouse