Blue Bell Inn, Ingleby Cross, Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

This inn was erected for Sir Hugh Bell, and is situated at Ingleby Cross, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and lies on the east side of the main road between Thirsk and Yarm, in delightful country at the foot of the Cleveland Hills. The buildings are so planned that the rooms for the travellers and innkeeper catch the best of the day's sun, and with stabling forming a forecourt sheltered from the north and east winds, which sweep this countryside in winter. The ground floor provides a common room with an ingled fire, a bar parlour, and the inn keeper's living-rooms, and the first floor provides a large room for meetings, rent days, etc. There is ample stable accommodation. The elevations have been simply treated, the walls being of local stone and the roofs covered with rich, red, hand-made pantiles; the whole has already weathered into its natural setting. The work was carried out by Mr. J. T. Tarran, of Enterpen, and Mr. Walter H. Brierley, of York, was the architect. [Builder 2 January 1920 page 18]

Reference           Builder 2 January 1920 page 17-18 with plan