The Three Crowns Public House

TQ 19 SW BUSHEY HIGH ROAD (Southwest side) Bushey Heath

10/83 The Three Crowns - Public House

GV II

Public House. Early C17. Cased in C18, altered C19 and C20. Timber frame. Brick casing, whitewashed and roughcast. Machine tiled roof. L plan: 4 bays with 2 bay cross wing to left and short projecting wing to right. 2 storeys. Entrance with round head to left of centre flanked by C20 additions. First floor central bays have a small 2-light casement and a 6-pane casement in reveals. Short projecting wing on right bay has a ground floor C20 window, first floor 3 light casement and a hipped roof. Left bay under bargeboarded gable of slightly taller cross wing. Ground floor C20 casement and first floor 12-pane sash. Ridge stack to left of main range, second stack to rear pitch at right end. Roof hipped to right. Left return: rebuilt stack at angle with front. Ground floor: a canted bay and a C20 window, first floor 12-pane sashes. C19 stack at rear gable end. 1 storey C18 addition to rear. Interior: ground floor ogee stop chamfered binding beams, queen post roof. A public house since 1749. (G.Bailey and G.Longman, Bushey:Then and Now vol.6, 1971: T.Groves, G.Longman and B.Wood, From the Wheatsheaf to the Windmill, Bushey Museum Trust, 1984).

Listing NGR: TQ1450294408