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Picture source: Hania Franek
The Anchor Inn was situated on Station Road. This grade-II listed pub was totally rebuilt following a fire in 1990.
The Anchor Inn is 18th century in appearance and may have been built as a coaching inn when the Plymouth - Exeter road on which it lay was turnpiked in the mid-18th century. It is Listed Grade II. It is stone built and slated, rendered with a hipped slate roof. The projecting porch consists of a single upper room supported on a pair of granite columns. Sash windows throughout. The two chimneys are of fairly small proportions, one brick and the other rendered. The wide overhanging eaves give an unusual character to the building.
An Archaeological Check List For South Brent, 1980, R.Robinson
Date of first building is uncertain but records show the inn was in existence by 1850 when Mr Arthur Langworth was innkeeper. The name of the inn is said to be connected with the men that were 'conscripted' here by Royal Navy press gangs; tradition has it that tunnels run underneath the building and the patrons would hide in them to avoid the gangs. In 1990 the inn was almost completely destroyed by fire and has since been totally rebuilt, still retaining much of its original character.
Dartmoor Inns, 1992, T.Quick
Listed building details:
Former coaching inn, now an hotel. Circa early/mid C19. Stuccoed ground floor, roughcast above. Low pitched hipped slate roof with oversailing eaves. Moulded wooden string at first floor level. Corner site. Two and three storeys. South east front facing Station Road is four bays. Right hand two bays is three storeys. Sash windows with glazing bars, ground floor glazing bars missing. to left of centre a two-storey hipped roof porch on octagonal monolithic granite piers with canted first floor bay window above with sash complete with margin glazing bars. C20 glazed double doors.
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Name Dates Comments John Brokenshire 1966 My parents ran this place with their business partners Stan and Adeline Black 1966. I lived there at about three years of age.
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Date of photo: 1990	Picture source: Clive Schneidau