Hope and Anchor Hotel
HOPE AND ANCHOR HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111806
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Hope and Anchor Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- HOPE AND ANCHOR HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111806
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Hope and Anchor Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPE AND ANCHOR HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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:
- HOPE AND ANCHOR HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wirksworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 28651 53946
Details
MARKET PLACE 1. (In the centre) 1839 Hope & Anchor Hotel SK 2853 2/29 24.10.50.
II
2. Early C19 ashlar to early C17 coursed stone rubble exposed in rear gabled dormers; 3 storeys; 7 sash windows; small stuccoed Roman Doric cornice hood porch. Left-hand wing, formerly with modern shop front, now has plain inn windows. Plain eaves. C19 cast-iron inn-sign. Contains enriched oak overmantel with fluted Ionic shafts (the volutes upside down) flanking a bolection moulding around fireplace and supporting an enriched cornice on consoles with panels enriched with fleurs-de-lys, unicorns, Tudor Rose, etc. Of crude execution and date circa 1610. The entrance lobby contains a small section of a moulded plaster ceiling of the same date. The history of the house is problematical, but it is vaguely associated with the Governor when Wirksworth had a penal settlement.
Listing NGR: SK2865153946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79741
- 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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