Crown And Anchor Hotel

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.