Anchor House
ANCHOR HOUSE, LUDGATE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106236
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Anchor House
- Statutory Address:
- ANCHOR HOUSE, LUDGATE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106236
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Anchor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANCHOR HOUSE, LUDGATE LANE
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:
- ANCHOR HOUSE, LUDGATE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lynsted with Kingsdown
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 94262 60790
Details
TQ 96 SW LYNSTED LUDGATE LANE (south side)
2/66 Anchor House 27.8.52 GV II
Hall house sometime Ye Olde Anchor Inn. C16 with C20 additions. Timber framed with exposed close-studding, underbuilt with painted brick; painted brick extension. Plain and fish-scale tiled roof. Original plan of hall house with 2 projecting wings, that to right destroyed by bombing during World War II, replaced by C20 brick extension. Two storeys on plinth with projecting hipped wing to left and overhanging eaves on brackets to centre. Hipped roof with gablets, stepped up to right. Central stack. Irregular fenestration of mullioned windowswith sidelights to left and 2 wood casements on first floor and 2 wood casements on ground floor. Doorway originally to screens passage to centre left, with solid spandrels cut and reversed from single tree; iron-studded part repaired door, probably from Lynsted Lodge, with embattled bressumer over, and 2 engaged and moulded boutels over. Interior: crown post roof,embattled dais and screens passage beams. Inner door of ogee outline. (See Arch. Cant. LV, 1942).
Listing NGR: TQ9423460813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeologia Cantiana in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 55, (1942)
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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