The Three Horseshoes Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. Public house.
The Three Horseshoes Public House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-courtyard-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Three Horseshoes Public House, Church Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 927 281
- Coordinates
- 51.91832, 0.8019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Three Horseshoes Public House is a 16th century and earlier timber-framed building with one storey and attics, featuring two gabled dormers that face east. The exterior is rendered, and the roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. There is a modern chimney stack located at the north end of the ridge. The ground storey has a central front door, which is modern, situated under a flat hood supported by brackets. On either side of the door are a pair of six-pane sash windows in exposed boxes. Originally, the building had an open hall at the north end, which was later divided in the late 16th century. The southern bay contains a storeyed service area, where evidence of a first floor and a buttery partition can still be seen in the bar room.
Local climate
The Three Horseshoes Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
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