Anchor House

TQ 96 SW LYNSTED LUDGATE LANE (south side)

2/66 Anchor House 27.8.52 GV II

Hall house sometime Ye Olde Anchor Inn. C16 with C20 additions. Timber framed with exposed close-studding, underbuilt with painted brick; painted brick extension. Plain and fish-scale tiled roof. Original plan of hall house with 2 projecting wings, that to right destroyed by bombing during World War II, replaced by C20 brick extension. Two storeys on plinth with projecting hipped wing to left and overhanging eaves on brackets to centre. Hipped roof with gablets, stepped up to right. Central stack. Irregular fenestration of mullioned windowswith sidelights to left and 2 wood casements on first floor and 2 wood casements on ground floor. Doorway originally to screens passage to centre left, with solid spandrels cut and reversed from single tree; iron-studded part repaired door, probably from Lynsted Lodge, with embattled bressumer over, and 2 engaged and moulded boutels over. Interior: crown post roof,embattled dais and screens passage beams. Inner door of ogee outline. (See Arch. Cant. LV, 1942).

Listing NGR: TQ9423460813