Wave and Anchor Weathervane, Anchor Hotel, Copperas Road, Brightlingsea, Essex. - Unique Weathervanes on Waymarking.com

The Anchor Hotel was designed/built by George Henry Page in 1901 on the site of much earlier buildings, also Anchor public houses dating from the 1630s. It is a mixture of styles, most noticably Jacobean and Bavarian, and is now Grade II listed.

The ground floor is of Kentish ragstone rubble with the upper floors faced in cement with timber-framing. A C20th pantiled roof replaces the original Brosely tiles and there is a centrally placed openwork octagonal wooden cupola with an iron weathervane. It is square in plan, of two storeys with attics in the four main gables, two each to south and west, each with a sash window. These projecting gables have deep coving and elaborate oak framing with painted swages at the peak and terracotta dragon finials, the right-hand gable of each face projecting forward of its neighbour. The south first floor has two elliptically curved bay windows each with an elaborate Bavarian style fretted balcony, that to the left having smaller sash windows with curved tops either side. The west face has one similar bay window, to the right-hand, and one oriel window, this one with smaller sash windows with curved tops either side. There are French windows to the balconies. The ground floor has one curved three-light window, to the south face left-hand, and one five-light window, to the west face left-hand. These ground floor windows have etched glass whilst the others have stained glass to the tops. There are elaborate Jacobean style pilasters to the first floor, and the ground floor has three stone, round-headed entrances with keystone and reeded pilasters, double doors and stained glass inserts.

The weathervane is mounted on the wooden cupola on a wrought iron stand. The vane depicts an anchor and waves, and this and the cardinal points have been painted gold.

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