Three Tuns Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. A C16 or early C17 Public house.
Three Tuns Public House
- WRENN ID
- spare-keep-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Three Tuns Public House, Hormead Dane
- OS grid reference
- TL 402 299
- Coordinates
- 51.95069, 0.03872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Three Tuns Public House is a building that originated as a house in the 16th or early 17th century and was converted into an inn in the early 18th century. It was purchased by William Wigg in 1726 and was noted as an inn around 1736. The structure features a timber frame set on a black stucco plinth, with roughcast walls and a dark weatherboard apron. It has a steep thatched roof that is half-hipped at the west end, extending down as a hip over the eastern extension and sloping low over the eastern part of the northern front.
The building is two storeys high with a three-cell internal chimney plan, facing north. It has a red brick chimney located a third of the way from the west, serving the parlour and hall. There is a large external chimney at the eastern end, which is now capped off at the eaves. The northern front is irregular, featuring weatherboard cladding on the ground floor of the western part, with two-light flush casement windows and a plank door in the lower eastern part, which has a flat hood supported by brackets.
Attached to the northwest corner is a dark weatherboarded single-storey range. The western part includes a six-panel flush beaded door and a two-light Yorkshire flush sliding casement. The rear elevation, facing the garden, has a plank door leading into the lower end of the hall, along with two- and three-light flush casement windows, and a small-paned two-light Yorkshire sliding casement window on the first floor. Inside, the building features exposed timbers, chamfered axial beams, and close-studded walls, with a later addition to the parlour fireplace.
Local climate
Three Tuns Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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