Anchor Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1969. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Anchor Chambers
- WRENN ID
- spare-bastion-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1969
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Anchor Chambers, 8, Nene Quay, Wisbech
- OS grid reference
- TF 461 097
- Coordinates
- 52.66563, 0.15902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anchor Chambers is an early 19th-century inn located on Nene Quay in Wisbech. The building is constructed of local red-brown brick and features a hipped slate roof. It stands two storeys tall, with attics and basements, and has a symmetrical facade divided into three bays. On the first floor, there are two recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows set in cambered gauged brick arches with stone cills, along with a central blind window. The ground floor has two boarded windows, which were originally similar to the first-floor windows, flanking a boarded door that is topped with a round-headed gauged brick arch and a plain fanlight. The side elevation includes two entrances, a capped central stack, and two dormer windows. Historical references include photographs and prints from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as a publication by A.A. Oldham titled "Inns and Taverns of Wisbech" from 1950.
Local climate
Anchor Chambers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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 0.3°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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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