Hope and Anchor PH

This is a roughly G-shaped public house, dating back to the 18th century, with later additions including a 19th-century outbuilding at the rear. The main, street-facing part of the building is of brick construction with a timber-framed core, now rendered. It has a slate roof with a tiled ridge. A rendered stack and a small chimney are located on the left-hand side. The front elevation is asymmetrical, featuring five 19th-century six-pane sash windows on the first floor, and two similar windows flanking a ground-floor slated porch to the right. Simple moulded stucco surrounds the windows. A projecting porch addition sits to the left, with a large 20th-century eight-pane window beyond. Both porches are pebble-dashed and have part-glazed doors and single brick steps. The left-hand porch is older and has oversailing eaves; both have plain bargeboards. A 20th-century inn sign is fixed between the third and fourth first-floor windows, and a masonry break is visible to the left, possibly indicating the original bay divisions of the timber-framed structure. The rear of the building incorporates a whitened rubble stable block, likely from the 19th century, with a boarded loading bay to the gable end. Modern windows and doors are now in place.

The interior has been altered, but originally followed a “chimney-backing-on-entry” plan. The lounge-bar has an early Tudor-style beamed ceiling with broad, flat joists and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. It also features a large fireplace with a heavily-moulded flat oak bressummer, containing a recessed 20th-century Tudor-style fireplace made of reconstituted stone. A similar fireplace is in the Snooker Room, with a boxed lateral beam. On the first floor, an ex-situ wooden staircase newel comes from a former, possibly original, spiral staircase; evidence of mortising for the former risers remains. Structural timbers are visible, including wall posts and a four-bay roof structure, featuring two partition trusses of queen-post type (the infill sections and most uprights have been removed), together with a chamfered central principal.