The Old Anchor is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1952. House, former inn.
The Old Anchor
- WRENN ID
- crooked-plaster-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1952
- Type
- House, former inn
- Address
- The Old Anchor, A1, Tempsford
- OS grid reference
- TL 162 540
- Coordinates
- 52.17242, -0.30185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Anchor is a house that was formerly known as The Anchor Inn. It dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and is constructed with a timber frame, mostly covered in colourwashed brick. The roof is made of clay tiles. The building is two storeys high and has a three-room layout.
On the southwest elevation, both floors feature three 3-light casement windows. The left-hand ground floor windows are situated beside a single light window, which seems to have replaced a doorway. This arrangement is nearly aligned with a brick double ridge stack. There is a plank door located between the two right-hand bays. Additionally, there is an external brick stack at the right-hand gable end and a small lean-to addition at the rear.
Local climate
The Old Anchor 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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