Crown and Anchor Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Crown and Anchor Hotel
- WRENN ID
- lunar-landing-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Crown and Anchor Hotel, 10b, Westgate Street, IP1 3EG
- OS grid reference
- TM 161 446
- Coordinates
- 52.0584, 1.15186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown and Anchor Hotel is an early 20th-century building with a stone front designed by Cotman, featuring a Venetian Gothic style. It has three storeys and attics, with a parapet adorned with quatrefoil panels and crocketted pinnacles. The façade includes a five-window range with double-hung sashes, where three alternate window ranges consist of three-light bays that rise through two storeys, supported by stone pillared mullions. These bays have pierced quatrefoil shallow balconies and intricately carved ornamental panels between the storeys. The attic storey is highlighted by four gabled dormers, each with crocketted swept gables, pinnacles, and foliated finials. The main doorway is topped with a flat ogee arch, and the hotel name is carved above it. Between the first and second storeys, above the doorway, there is a panel featuring a coat of arms flanked by ornamented roundels. The ground storey has later 20th-century shops. Additionally, the Crown and Anchor Hotel has an early 19th-century frontage facing Providence Street, which is described under Providence Street.
Local climate
Crown and Anchor Hotel 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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