Welcome to Anchor Cottage
Anchor Cottage has been a part of Haslemere's history since 1611.
And our family home since 2015.
Over the last ten years, it's provided a spacious, flexible and relaxed home for our six children in this safe but lively community. And now it's time for us to move on.
This website celebrates and appreciates what a wonderful and flexible home it's been - and it's for anyone interested in making our home their own and picking up the thread of history.
The background image is from Morley's 1735 map of Haslemere. The right margin of the text opposite runs through Anchor Cottage..
Welcome
Haslemere is just on the back doorstep.
Waitrose is disastrously convenient.
Haslemere Hall is close enough to nip back home for a cuppa during the interval.
Six minutes takes you to picnic territory and off lead dog walks at Swan Barn.
Wonderful St Bart's - which all our children have loved - is 7 minutes, de-stressing the school run (most days!).
And less than 15 minutes takes you to uninterrupted countryside.
Our car doesn't do local.
For more than 400 years, Anchor Cottage - also known as Anchor Inn and, for a short while, the Blue Anchor - has witnessed the history of Haslemere and its enduring popularity.
The house itself is full of surprises... with four floors, four large bedrooms and three reception rooms, it's a veritable tardis. Unassuming on the outside, expansive on the inside, a hugely flexible space.
Its generous, secluded cottage garden is similarly unimaginable from the front, with direct access to the town centre via a rear gate and path, without a single road to cross.
This website share a little of our perspective of Anchor Cottage, so much richer than any agent's description - an appreciation of its warm calm in the centre of this bustling little town.