Description

GREAT BOOKHAM LOWER ROAD
TQ 1354 NE (south side)
14/95

7.9.51 The Anchor Inn

GV II

House, now public house. C17, altered in C19 and extended. White-painted
roughcast, probably on brick; red tile roof. Double-depth plan under 2-span roof.
Two storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical; plinth; central doorway with modern gabled
porch; 2 tall 2-light casements at ground floor and 3 shorter ones above; roof
half-hipped at left end, with external chimney at this end, gable chimney at
right-hand end. Single-storey extension to the left, with one similar window and
half-hipped roof. (C19 range to rear is not of special interest.) Interior: the
front range contains remains of a late C17 timber-framed 2-unit building, with 2
2 posts at the left gable wall, remains of a timber-framed rear wall (posts and
rail with vacant mortices), a chamfered spine-beam in the left half and a
chamfered lateral beam in the right-hand half; and a brick inglenook fireplace
with chamfered bressummer.

Listing NGR: TQ1389754877

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26658599

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)