The Three Crowns Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Three Crowns Public House

WRENN ID
pale-steeple-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hertsmere
Constituency
Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1985
Type
Public house
Address
The Three Crowns Public House, High Road, WD23 1EA
OS grid reference
TQ 145 944
Coordinates
51.63684, -0.34683
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Three Crowns is a public house located on Bushey High Road, dating back to the early 17th century. It was cased in the 18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame with brick casing that is whitewashed and roughcast, topped with a machine-tiled roof. It has an L-shaped plan with four bays and a two-bay cross wing on the left, along with a short projecting wing on the right. The structure is two storeys tall.

The entrance is located to the left of the center and has a round head, flanked by 20th-century additions. The central bays on the first floor contain a small two-light casement and a six-pane casement set in reveals. The short projecting wing on the right has a ground floor 20th-century window, a three-light casement on the first floor, and a hipped roof. The left bay features a bargeboarded gable of the slightly taller cross wing, with a ground floor 20th-century casement and a 12-pane sash on the first floor. There is a ridge stack on the left of the main range and a second stack on the rear pitch at the right end, with the roof hipped to the right.

On the left return, there is a rebuilt stack at an angle with the front. The ground floor has a canted bay and a 20th-century window, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes. A 19th-century stack is present at the rear gable end, and there is a one-storey 18th-century addition to the rear. Inside, the ground floor features ogee stop-chamfered binding beams and a queen post roof. The Three Crowns has been a public house since 1749.

Local climate

The Three Crowns Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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