The Horns Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Public house.
The Horns Public House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-timber-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Horns Public House, 82, Bramfield Road, Datchworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 271 174
- Coordinates
- 51.84076, -0.15635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Horns Public House is a public house dating from the early 16th century, with flooring and heating added in the early 17th century, and later extended in the 19th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base, with weatherboarding that includes bead mouldings. The roof is tiled, using machine tiles on the rear. The building has a two-bay open hall with storied bays at each end, and it is now one storey with an attic, along with a 19th-century dairy added to the right side, which serves as the service end.
On the ground floor, there are two entrances to the right, one of which is a lobby entry leading to an inserted stack, with a small hood over the right door. To the left, there are two and three-light small pane slightly recessed casements. The building also features three gabled dormers with two-light small pane windows. An axial cruciform ridge stack, positioned to the right of centre, is made of 17th-century stretcher bond red brick with a rebuilt capping. The left gable has weatherboarding above a 20th-century brick lean-to, while the right gable has weatherboarding over a rough cast brick dairy that includes a canted bay window with a 16-pane sash at the front, and a weatherboarded right end with a cross casement. At the rear, there is a 19th-century stack and a low gabled 19th-century wing. Inside, the building features an exposed frame with large scantling, cambered tie beams, and stop-chamfered posts and cross axial bearers.
Local climate
The Horns Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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