Tyne and Wear HER(15608): Newcastle, The Close, Anchor Public House - Details
15608
Newcastle
Newcastle, The Close, Anchor Public House
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Licensed Premises
Public House
Early Modern
C19
Demolished Building
Built in the beginning of the 19th century. Rebuilt in 1878. By the 1960s the building was in a dangerous condition. Charrington's sought planning permission to remove the two top floors and add a corrugated asbestos roof. Permission was not granted. The Anchor closed in 1967.
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636
NZ249636
Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume One - The Central Area, p 41