The Bell Inn

Date of visit: August 2024

I have experience of challenges around: moving around

Overall Rating

I am a wheelchair user. We intended to have lunch at the pub to check out accessibility. The pub has a very good reputation for food and drink. However , accessibility is abysmal! The pub is side on to the road and there is front and rear access. The front door is narrow with a high step, just about wheelchair possible, but an inner, outward-opening, lobby door reduces the width, preventing any wheelchair access. The rear door is via the garden, off the large car park. The rear entrance is wide enough for a wheelchair, taking you past a gents toilet and a ladies toilet, both with one step up and narrow doors. No accessible toilet. You enter the pub to be confronted by one step down to a lobby area, then one step up to the main eating area. A total block to a wheelchair! The garden has a timber circular seating shelter, near the back door - not accessible. A steep windy path leads into the back garden. Not inviting if in a wheelchair!

Disabled Access In and Around

See details above. Access is just about manageable if you use a walker, but with difficulty.

Parking & Transport

3 spaces next to the garden entrance adjacent to the rear of the pub. display a disabled parking sign, with 1 unmarked space, but these are all normal narrow spaces. There could be 3 full size disabled spaces, but that would be pointless as you can’t get in the pub anyway!

Accessible Toilets

None, and see comments above.

Staff

0

Didn’t talk to any. The pub was rammed, on Bank Holiday Sunday.

Additional Information

So disappointing! I guess it’s a listed building but they’ve got a huge site. More interested in feeding able customers!

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