The Blue Anchor Inn PH

The Blue Anchor Inn is a public house with a significant architectural history, built from thick-walled random limestone rubble with dressed quoins. It features a polite build indicated by a general batter rather than a base batter. The roof is thatched with combed wheat reed and has eyebrows, while the end gables are simply finished. The ridge line is higher over the eastern two-thirds of the building, and there are three rebuilt stone ridge stacks along with a square stone stack at the left-hand front angle.

This two-storey building has a four-unit single depth plan, with a rear extension that covers almost all of the ground floor. The main south elevation includes three irregularly spaced and sized windows, all of which are later wooden casements. There is a central pointed-arch chamfered stone doorframe with a plank door, and two staircase projections on the front. To the right, a late 20th-century single-storey extension covers what was originally the fourth window.

The west gable end features a modern 6 over 6 pane sash window in a brick frame. The rear elevation has a small square casement window in the inner room on the right, while a random rubble single-storey extension covers the rest of the ground floor, which includes a door and three modern casement windows. Above this extension, there is a small casement in an eyebrow dormer on the main wall.

During the last inspection in October 2003, only the ground floor was examined. The entrance door leads into the former cross-passage, with the kitchen now serving as the bar area on the right. To the left, through a doorway with half of a pointed arch stone frame, is what was the Hall, with the inner room beyond. This area is separated by a stone screen with a pointed arch oak doorway. The main rooms feature massive original chamfered ceiling beams with broach and diagonal stops, some original joists, and each has an open stone fireplace with a heavy oak hearth-beam. Each room also has a winding staircase, with the staircase in the kitchen (bar) area having stone treads. The outer room is now windowless but retains a fireplace with a bread oven. The building is said to maintain its principal rafter roof.