The Anchorage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
The Anchorage
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Anchorage, 5, St Thomas's Street, Ryde, PO33 2LZ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 591 926
- Coordinates
- 50.73055, -1.16378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Anchorage is a three-storey building dating to circa 1800, with significant alterations and a brick refacing carried out around 1840-1850. It is constructed of gault brick with bands marking the floors and a rendered cornice and blocking course at the eaves, which conceal the low-pitched slate roof. The windows are sash windows, some retaining glazing bars, set within moulded flush wood frames and rendered architrave surrounds added during the 1840s. A later bay window of three lights has been added to the ground floor South side. A central Doric porch features columns to the front and pilasters to the walls and contains a recessed panelled and glazed door with a rectangular fanlight above.
A two-storey wing to the South, containing a small stone rubble walled yard with brick dressings and a rendered cornice and coping, is attached to the main building. A doorway to the street is flanked by banded brick piers supporting a gauged brick arch. Along the North side of the yard is a small lean-to structure with a segment-headed sash window containing glazing bars.
The North garden front replicates the bands and cornice from the entrance front and features three windows. Early type three-light bay windows have been added to the East side of the ground and first floors, with sash windows and glazing bars, fluted pilasters and bracketed cornices. A later 19th-century brick bay window of three windows, with segmental gauged brick arches, is located on the West side of the ground floor.
Nos. 2 to 5 form a cohesive group and The Anchorage also contributes to the group formed with No. 6 St James’s Street.
Local climate
The Anchorage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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