Three Horseshoes 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.
Three Horseshoes Public House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-lime-saffron
- 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
- Three Horseshoes Public House, the Green, Aldenham, WD25 8ER
- OS grid reference
- TQ 152 977
- Coordinates
- 51.66656, -0.33533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Three Horseshoes Public House is a former house that has been a public house since 1803. Originally built around 1600, it features a hall that was extended in the early to mid 18th century and altered in 1803 and later in the 19th century. The building has a timber frame for the hall, which is cased and extended in brick, and is rendered with imitation timber framing. It has tiled roofs and is a single-storey, two-bay hall that extends to the right of the current front. The front has two and four-light casements, and there is a weatherboarded gable on the right return. The roof is steeply pitched, and there is an 18th-century axial stack with oversailing courses.
To the left is an early to mid 18th-century addition that is two storeys high with a two-window front. The entrance is off-centre, flanked by 19th-century canted bays. On the first floor, there are two sash windows and twin gables, with the upper part roughcast and featuring imitation timber framing. The left return was the original 18th-century front. The ground floor includes a 19th-century canted bay with a three-light casement that has a segmental head to the left, while the first floor has two two-light casements with segmental heads. The eaves are dentilled in brick.
At the rear, the gable end is weatherboarded and has an external stack with an oversailing cap. A lean-to has been added to the right of the current front, leading to the hall, which is set back. Attached to the rear right is a one-bay remnant of a 16th or 17th-century barn, featuring curved braces to cambered tie beams. This section is cement rendered and weatherboarded externally. There are later one-storey extensions to the rear that are of no special interest.
Local climate
Three Horseshoes 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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