The Ankor is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. House.
The Ankor
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-hall-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Ankor, 5, Staploe
- OS grid reference
- TL 161 605
- Coordinates
- 52.23126, -0.30065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ankor is a house that was formerly known as the Anchor public house. It dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is timber framed, featuring colour washed rough cast on the right-hand bay and colour washed brick on the two left-hand bays. It has a 20th-century tiled roof and a three-room plan across two storeys.
The left-hand block has two windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows set under cambered heads, and a central front door. The right-hand block has one window on each floor. All windows are two-light horizontal sashes with glazing bars. A large red brick ridge stack is located to the right of the left-hand bay, and there is a small red brick gable end stack to the west. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition.
Local climate
The Ankor sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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