The Anchor Public House
THE ANCHOR PUBLIC HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078711
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Anchor Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE ANCHOR PUBLIC HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078711
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Anchor Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ANCHOR PUBLIC HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ANCHOR PUBLIC HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thundridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3589217517
Details
TL 3517
9/8
THUNDRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE ROAD
(west side)
Wadesmill
The Anchor PH
GV
II
House, now a public house. C16 or earlier, altered in early C17,
C18, and early C19. Timber frame, plastered and lined as ashlar
roughcast N gable and rear, painted brick rear extensions.
Painted brick plinth. Very steep red tile roof. H-plan former
hall-house facing E, with the ground floor level lower in the 2
2-storeys crosswinqs. Floor inserted in hall in early C17 with
central chimney probably sited in the cross-passage. Staircase
to rear of stack. At same time side walls of hall heightened and
a new steep pitched roof built extending over the crosswings and
running down lower over their front projections, and with deep
eaves overhang at rear. Roof over centre reconstructed in C18
but curved wind-braces to purlins of older roof remain over
crosswing. 2-storeys front to road, 3-windows long, but of 4
structural bays. End bays project. Flush box sash windows to
1st floor with 6/6 panes. On ground floor a small paned
Yorkshire sliding casement to the right hand projection, a half-
glazed panelled door into the left part of the centre, flanked on
each side by a projecting canted bay window. Bay on right has
small paned casements, bay on left has sash windows with
4/4:10/10:4/4 small panes. The bays are roofed and linked by a
lean-to tiled porch with open front carried on 2 posts and small
central gable. Internal gable chimney at S and rear lateral
chimney to N wing appear to be C18/19 additions. Interior has
heavy flat-laid joists exposed in rear part of S wing on ground
floor, and jowled posts of the former central hall on the 1st
floor. Floor in middle part of ground floor probably raised to
the level of the abutments of the new bridge built in 1824-5.
Listing NGR: TL3589217517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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