Description

TL 2886-2986 RAMSEY HIGH STREET
11/14 (north side)

No 80
GV
II

Mid C18 house formerly 'The Anchor' inn. Two storeys and attics. Local gault brick.
Plain tile roof with C17 patterned ridge tiles and 2 medieval ridge tiles of a ram and
a bull. Square ridge stack. Three hung sash windows with glazing bars at first
floor. Iron bracket for pub sign. C19 architraved splayed shop windows flank
half-glazed door with rectangular fanlight. Six panelled house door in moulded wooden
architrave with rectangular fanlight to east with Venetian sash window with glazing
bars in flat headed brick arch.

The ridge tiles were possibly salvaged from buildings destroyed in the 1731 fire. The
ram and bull are featured on a C14 floor tile found in the abbey grounds recently and
are part of the folk history of the town.

Source: Ramsey Parish registers.

Listing NGR: TL2885285090

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588595

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