Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400118

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)