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Latitude: 57.6598 / 57°39'35"N
Longitude: -3.6124 / 3°36'44"W
OS Eastings: 303890
OS Northings: 864462
OS Grid: NJ038644
Mapcode National: GBR K8FG.ZZL
Mapcode Global: WH5GY.HQ0T
Plus Code: 9C9RM95Q+W2
Entry Name: 44, Crown And Anchor Inn, Findhorn
Listing Name: 44 Findhorn, Crown and Anchor Inn
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340860
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8674
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200340860
Location: Kinloss
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Forres
Parish: Kinloss
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Inn
Dated 1739. 2-storey and attic, narrow 4-bay S facing house with steeply pitched crowstepped gables; later 2-storey, 3-bay addition at E gable with shallower roof pitch; modern single storey E extension with flat roof. White harled, contrasting painted reveals. Modern porch masks original entrance; narrow windows in N and S elevations of older
house; enlarged windows in later additions to N and S; 2 piended dormers in front roof slope of original house, 1 in rear. Mainly 2-pane glazing. Coped end stacks; slate roofs.
INTERIOR: W room in ground floor of older portion has large segmental- headed hearth.
Early 19th century photographs show the Crown and Anchor with a thatched roof; also with a fine pair of 18th century rusticated ashlar gatepiers with ball finials on shaped bases flanking entrance to present car park fronting inn. The later portion at E gable was originally a single storey, 3-bay cottage later raised to 2 storeys. SW skewputt initialled
'H MB 1739'.
Mercat Cross, re-erected 7 May, 1979, stands opposite W gable of Crown and Anchor Inn; though largely new work it is a copy of the original and some fragments of an earlier 'cross' are incorporated. Mercat cross not included in listing.
Change of Category B to C(S), 25.4.89.
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