Garage At East End Of The Anchor Public House (The Anchor Public House Not Included)

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE HOLLAND STREET 684-1/7/178 (South side) 31/08/88 Garage at east end of The Anchor Public House (The Anchor PH not included) (Formerly Listed as: HOLLAND STREET (South side) The Pit Stop (formerly the Golden Anchor):garage at east end only.)

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Cottage converted to garage, now forming eastern end of a public house (not included). C17. Solid, rendered front wall, probably of stone or cob, side walls of cob on a high stone rubble plinth; rear wall of stone rubble, the lower part mostly rebuilt in concrete block. Pantiled roof. 1-room plan, approx 5.3m wide and 5.2m deep. 2 storeys. Front has wide vehicle entrance to right and small segmental-headed window to left. Latter contains a chamfered, rectangular wood frame of C17 which must originally have had a central mullion; it now has a 6-paned fixed sash. No upper-storey windows. INTERIOR: chamfered upper floor beam with scroll-stops, clearly designed for a room of this width; fairly rough, plain joists, evidently made to fit this beam. Old floor boards above, probably re-used, to judge from the position of the redundant pegs fitted to them. No staircase, and no access at present to upper storey. This building is a rare survival of a small C17 cottage, and though altered retains enough of its original shape and character to be of significance. It is shown as a separate dwelling in John Wood's map of 1843; there are no grounds for thinking it was originally part of a larger house. The public house itself (not included) is also an early structure much altered in C19. The walls are very thick in places and there are some old roof trusses, heavily plastered. The ground storey bar to left of the main entrance has one end of a chamfered upper floor beam and during building work in 1985 a large fireplace was partly exposed in the rear wall. The builders reported seeing a joist dated 1648 or 1668, apparently in its original position, in the eastern room next to the garage. (Wood J: Map of Barnstaple: 1843-).

Listing NGR: SS5566333212