The Blue Anchor Inn

The Blue Anchor Inn is a public house dating from the 18th century, located on Coinagehall Street in Helston. The building features a granite ashlar plinth, with the rest constructed from roughly-coursed rubble and timber lintels. It has a wheat-straw thatched roof and a rendered stack on the left side. The layout is double-depth, with rear wings flanking a central through-passage and a deeper wing on the right. The inn is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical three-window front. The windows are late 18th century or early 19th century horizontal-sliding sashes with glazing bars, except for a pair of late 19th century four-pane horned sashes in a much wider opening on the ground floor to the left. The central doorway is topped with a hood that has a bracketed cornice. Inside, there is a large stone fireplace in the rear right-hand room, some granite-flagged floors, and original ceiling joists.