Blue Anchor Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Public house. 1 related planning application.

Blue Anchor Hotel

WRENN ID
stark-rood-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1983
Type
Public house
Address
Blue Anchor Hotel, Main Road, Bolton-Le-Sands, LA5 8DN
OS grid reference
SD 483 677
Coordinates
54.10288, -2.79116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Blue Anchor Hotel is a public house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone, with the front featuring coursed and watershot stonework, while the rear walls are made of rubble. The building has a slate roof and stands two storeys high with three bays. Each bay includes a sashed window with glazing bars set in a plain stone surround on both floors. A sill band runs along the first floor.

Between the second and third bays, there is a plain stone door surround leading to a porch that has a plain frieze, cornice, and blocking course supported by two Tuscan columns. Square stone brackets support the stone gutter. The hotel has a chimney located on the north gable and between the first and second bays.

At the front of the south wall, there is a canted bay with a central doorway that is now blocked, featuring a projecting cornice hood carried on square brackets. The windows in this bay are sashed with glazing bars, except for those on the left-hand side, which are blind. To the west of the bay, there is a sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround on each floor, with the sill band and stone gutter of the facade continuing along the south wall.

Local climate

Blue Anchor Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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