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The Six Bells was situated on Mill Road. This grade-II listed pub closed in 1988 and is now in residential use.

Source: Heidi Notley

Listed building details:

Public House, C15 with mid C19 alterations. 1 1/2 storeys and attics; a 3-cell open hall house. Timber-framed, clad in C19 red brick now painted. Gambrel roof with glazed plaintiles in bands alternating with fish scale tiles; gabled plaintiled dormers with bargeboards having undulating soffits and spike finials; axial and gable chimneys of red brick. Mid C19 windows with segmental heads; various sliding sashes and casements, fully-glazed C20 entrance door. A much-altered 2-bay open hall, with arched doorway into parlour at right-hand end; some exposed close-studded walling in the bar area. First floor structure inserted into the hall, and chimney intruded into former cross-passage, late C16. The roof structure replaced C18 or C19. The original roof was half- hipped at the parlour end, and probably over the service end also. Included despite C19 alterations because of good early core.

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