The Anchor Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Inn. 5 related planning applications.
The Anchor Inn
- WRENN ID
- errant-gravel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Anchor Inn, High Street, Swanage, BH19 2NU
- OS grid reference
- SZ 031 787
- Coordinates
- 50.60832, -1.95711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Anchor Inn is a building likely originating from the 17th century, featuring rendered walls and a Purbeck Stone roof. It is divided into three sections: the center section is three storeys high, while the side sections are two storeys, although they do not match in design. The western section has a flush panelled door beneath a gabled hood and one double-hung sash window on each floor. The center section includes one double-hung sash window on the ground floor, a projecting curved end bow window with double-hung sashes and glazing bars, and a flat roof on the first floor, along with two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars on the second floor. The eastern section features a door with a semi-circular fanlight under a gabled porch, one double-hung sash window on the ground floor, and another double-hung sash window with glazing bars on the first floor.
Local climate
The Anchor Inn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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