The Anchor
THE ANCHOR, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214556
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Anchor
- Statutory Address:
- THE ANCHOR, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214556
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Anchor
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ANCHOR, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Bradstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 48693 89587
Details
SY 4889 BURTON BRADSTOCK HIGH STREET, East Side
8/104 The Anchor
GV II
Detached Public House. Early-mid C19. Stone walls, rendered and painted. Slate roof with gable-ends, and lower gable at left front. Brick stacks at ridge centre and right hand gable. 2 storeys (main block). 4 windows, 2-light and 3-light cast-iron casements, with cast-iron glazing-bars forming octagons, 14 octagons per casement, original glass. Stone labels, returned (pointed) over all windows in late medieval style. Wooden cills. Oriel window at left hand-upper storey, canted sides with a hollow-profile coving, supported from a head-corbel. Fixed windows, with glazing- bars, in a pattern of even panel-tracery. Pent roof over. Front door, two leaf, studded, left of centre, C20. Single storey public bar attached at right hand end. Curving end wall and crenellated parapet. 3-light wooden casements with lead lights in the same octagonal pattern. Same 2-leaf door at party wall with main block.
The richness of the fenestration, including the oriel window, makes The Anchor an important building in the street.
Listing NGR: SY4869389587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399314
- 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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