The Unicorn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1981. Public house.
The Unicorn Public House
- WRENN ID
- keen-screen-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1981
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Unicorn Public House, Gallows Hill, Abbots Langley
- OS grid reference
- TL 082 013
- Coordinates
- 51.70078, -0.4343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unicorn Public House is a public house that dates back to the 17th century, with possible earlier origins. It was extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is likely timber-framed and is rendered, featuring tiled roofs. It has two storeys and consists of three bays from two early builds. The two bays on the right have a central entrance flanked by large three-light casements, all set within an early 20th-century corniced projection. The first floor has two small horizontal sliding sashes. The single bay on the left features a ground floor canted bay and a first floor 12-pane horizontal sliding sash. Both gable ends have external stacks with offsets and rebuilt caps, and there is a lean-to oven projection at the rear right. A continuous lean-to outshut at the back of the two right bays has been incorporated into the 19th and 20th-century wings added to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Unicorn 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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