Three Tuns Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

Three Tuns Public House

WRENN ID
scarred-landing-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1973
Type
Public house
Address
Three Tuns Public House, 34, St Andrew Street, Hertford, SG14 1JA
OS grid reference
TL 323 126
Coordinates
51.7966, -0.08245
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Three Tuns Public House is a building that originally served as a house, now functioning as a public house with a manager's flat above. It consists of two structures that are currently occupied as a single building. The front part dates from around 1700, while the rear dates from the mid to late 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front is made of stuccoed brick and features a Welsh slated roof with a modillioned eaves cornice.

The exterior has a four-bay front elevation, both two storeys high with attics. The first floor has four slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows set in architrave surrounds, along with a first-floor plat band. The ground floor includes two doorways in the first and third bays, with a sash window in between. There are modern half-glazed doors and double-leaf doors located diagonally at the right corner, which leads to Brewhouse Lane. The east flank elevation has one sash window on both the ground and first floors.

The rear range features a double jettied overhang, with a small window set high in the attic gable. This gable overhangs the first floor, which has a 12-pane Yorkshire sash window on the left. The ground floor has a small sash window on the left, a central closed 8-pane window, and a door on the right, with a timber bracket supporting the jetty above. The roof includes two box casement dormers. The rear of the building is timber-framed and plastered, with an old tiled roof and long plastered and brown brick chimneystacks.

Inside, the ground floor bar area has been opened up, featuring central 19th-century bar counters. The rear wall contains a large fireplace with a roll and cavetto moulded timber bressumer, which now serves as a doorway to the rear wing, situated two steps lower. The position of the fireplace is atypical for 18th-century plans, but the adjoining properties to the west, Nos 36 and 38, have a similar arrangement and also feature 18th-century fronts. The upper floors and roof were not inspected.

Local climate

Three Tuns 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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