Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and 16 Watchbell Street,

Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and 16, Watchbell Street, Rye, TN31 7HA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262434
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1968
List Entry Name:: Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and 16 Watchbell Street,
Statutory Address:: Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and 16, Watchbell Street, Rye, TN31 7HA

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Date:: 2001-07-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262434
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and 16 Watchbell Street,
Statutory Address 1:: Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and 16, Watchbell Street, Rye, TN31 7HA

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and 16, Watchbell Street, Rye, TN31 7HA

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Rother (District Authority)
Parish:: Rye
National Grid Reference:: TQ9200720188

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 March 2025 to amend the name, address, and description and reformat the text to current standards.

TQ 9120 1/139 TQ 9220 1/139

WATCHBELL STREET (north side) Hope Anchor Hotel, former No 17 (now part of hotel) and No 16

[formerly listed as No 15 (Greencliff), No 16 (The Outlook), The Old Hope Anchor Private Hotel. previously listed as No 15 (Hope Anchor Hotel). No 16 (The Outlook))

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GV II. No 16, C15 refronted in C18. Former No 17 circa 1830. Hope Anchor Hotel early C17 refronted in C18 and altered in modern times. Two storeys and attic. Former No 17 and No 16 have one window (and one dormer), each. The end house has two windows and one dormer. Tiled roofs. No 16 has been refronted with cement grooved to imitate masonry and has a bay built out on both storeys with the glazing bars missing It has an early C19 trellised wooden porch with pointed canopy surmounted by a cap. Former No 17 is of painted brick with a bay on the ground floor only and flat hood to door. The end house is of red brick and grey headers on the ground floor and tiles above, with moulded wooden cornice between, giving the lower edge of the tiles a slight angle. Glazing bars intact.

Nos 6 to 16 (consec) The Studio Chambers, and Hope Anchor Hotel form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ9200720188

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 435044
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.