Blue Anchor Public House

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SD4761NE 1685-1/7/160

LANCASTER MARKET STREET (north side) No.28, Blue Anchor Public House

(Formerly listed as No.28, Blue Anchor Public House, previously listed as MARKET STREET (North side) No.28), formerly listed as MARKET STREET (North side) Blue Anchor Inn)

18/02/70

GV II Houses, now a public house. Early C18, altered C19 and restored c1990. Painted roughcast over sandstone rubble, with painted ashlar dressings. Slate roof with chimney stacks above the party walls. Three storeys above cellars. The facade facing west is of three bays with sashed windows in painted stone surrounds. The ground floor openings are a restoration in painted concrete. In the third bay there is a doorway, with a second doorway to its left. Main entrance under the opening to Anchor Lane at right angles to left. Above this, one window on each floor. Above the archway at rear of opening a glazing bar sash window on the first floor, and a two-light window with a flat-faced mullion above. The rear elevation to Lawson's Yard has several two-light mullioned windows with square flush mullions, and a cross-window to light the stairs. Lawson's Yard is now glazed over and gives access to No.22 Market Street and the building to the rear (qv), which now partly form an annexe to the Bier and Twist.

INTERIOR: the bar to the right of the entrance is a scaled-down replica of the hull of the Lancaster privateer 'Thetis' which under Captain John Charnley fought off an attack by the much larger French warship 'Bonaparte' off Barbados in 1804. Beyond this a closed string staircase with two turned balusters per tread and a ramped handrail.

HISTORY: the Bier and Twist is said to have been a public house in 1725, when the licensee was Robert Armstrong.

Listing NGR: SD4765861733