The Blue Anchor is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Blue Anchor
- WRENN ID
- final-ledge-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Blue Anchor, 145, Fishpool Street, AL3 4RY
- OS grid reference
- TL 138 074
- Coordinates
- 51.75429, -0.35137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blue Anchor is a late 18th-century public house, partially restored. It is two storeys high and has four windows. The building is constructed of red brick and features a parapet above a tiled roof of moderate pitch, with a cross-gabled wing at the rear. It has one- and two-light sash windows with glazing bars; the ground-floor windows have been replaced. A brick plinth runs along the base. The recessed front door is within a flat-panelled reveal and has a cornice above it, as well as a patterned fanlight. The doorcase is decorated with fluted columns, a cornice with modillions and dentils, and an enriched open pediment.
Local climate
The Blue Anchor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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