Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280 BANKSIDE
636-1/2/25 (South side)
27/09/72 No.1
Anchor Public House

GV II

Includes: No.34 Anchor Public House PARK STREET.
Public house. Mid and late C18, with later alterations and
extensions. Red/brown brick with timber oriels and panelling.
On corner with Park Street. Part has tiled roof with dormers,
earlier section has roof obscured behind parapet.
2 storeys and attic, irregular fenestration. Rounded double
doors to entrance set into corner angle. (Main) Bankside
elevation has 2 subsidiary entrances, gauged-brick arches to
tripartite sash windows with glazing bars on ground floor,
tripartite window to earlier section (just to right of main
entrance) set into timber-panelled casing with shutters.
Above, a timber oriel in form of canted bay with panelled base
and 3 sash windows with glazing bars. Later sections to right
have 1st-floor windows in similar style.
Park Street elevation has gauged, segmental brick arches to
sash windows with glazing bars, one to left of door tripartite
with timber cornice and pilasters suggesting a shop front.
INTERIOR: older section has some original internal features.
Room on ground-floor with original early C18 kitchen fireplace
and some contemporary wainscoting. Staircase also early C18.
On 1st floor, a complete mid-late C18 pine-panelled room with
wide, segmental-arched alcove (now called the "Shakespeare
Room"). Much of internal timberwork in rest of building is
imitation.
Large recent extension to rear not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ3244980395

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Anchor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4752659

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)