The Old Anchor Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. Inn.
The Old Anchor Inn
- WRENN ID
- cold-groin-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Old Anchor Inn, 1 and 2, St Helens Wharf, Abingdon on Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 496 966
- Coordinates
- 51.66681, -1.2834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Anchor Inn is a building that likely has a core dating back to the 17th century, with a red brick front added in the mid-19th century. It stands two storeys high and features a slate roof. The front has five windows arranged in a pattern of 1: 3: 1, with the central section slightly projecting. The windows have stone flat arches with keystones and are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two similar windows and one six-light wooden mullion window in a moulded frame with a small cornice; this window has frosted glass and no glazing bars. There are also two similar doors, along with six fielded doors that have glazed ornamental fanlights, keystones, and impost bands. The building has a rendered plinth and a band between the storeys that features a carved name. It is topped with two tall chimneys at the corners and one central chimney. At the rear, there is rough rendered timber framing and gabled attics with 18th-century style windows. The Old Anchor Inn is part of a group that includes Nos. 1 to 4.
Local climate
The Old Anchor Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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