The Anchorage

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.