Anchor Chambers
ANCHOR CHAMBERS, 8, NENE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331625
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Anchor Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- ANCHOR CHAMBERS, 8, NENE QUAY
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- Date:
- 2001-07-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/04159/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331625
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Anchor Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANCHOR CHAMBERS, 8, NENE QUAY
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 CHAMBERS, 8, NENE QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46101 09731
Details
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 57 Item number 6/130 10.2.69
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WISBECH NENE QUAY TF 4609 6/130 No. 8 19.11.76 (Anchor Chambers) GV II
Early C19 inn. Local, red-brown brick, hipped slate roof. Two storeys with attics and basements. Symmetrical facade of three 'bays'. Two first floor recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows in cambered gauged brick arches with stone cills, central blind window. Two boarded ground floor windows, originally similar to those at first floor, flank a boarded door with round headed gauged brick arch and plain fanlight. Side elevation has two entrances, capped central stack and two dormer windows. Photographs and prints, W. & M. Mus. C18 and C19. A.A. Oldham, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, 1950.
Listing NGR: TF4610109731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48328
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oldham, A A, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, (1950)
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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