Waggon and Horses Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Waggon and Horses Public House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-glass-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Waggon and Horses Public House, 1, High Street, Watton-At-Stone, SG14 3ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 297 196
- Coordinates
- 51.86077, -0.11772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Waggon and Horses is an early to mid-17th century public house, potentially with earlier origins, and altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of timber frame, now rendered, with a red brick stack. The roof is tiled, with some slates to the rear. The building has a "L" shaped plan, comprising two bays by two bays.
The section facing the High Street is lower and likely the earlier part of the building, having been raised to the front. The ground floor has two recessed plank doors with moulded frames at each end. A dual-glazed bar sash window sits to the left of centre, within a flush moulded frame. Above are two first-floor windows, each a three-light small pane casement in a flush frame. A multiform rendered stack is positioned in front of the ridge to the right of centre. The taller, more recent range has a hipped roof to its return. The ground floor has a glazed bar sash, and to the right are two three-light small pane casements, all within flush frames.
To the rear gable end is an early brick stack addition, originally in English bond, slightly buttressed to the front, and with a rebuilt stock brick shaft. A blocked segmental headed opening is also present. Behind this wing is a 19th-century lean-to outshut, covered by a catslide roof. The High Street range has a steeper roof pitch to the rear. A hipped slate-roofed lean-to outshut extends to the left, featuring a small flush-frame sash window to the front and rear.
Inside, the public house has shaped jowled posts, tension braces, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The first floor was not inspected during the listing process.
Local climate
Waggon and Horses Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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