160, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Public house. 1 related planning application.
160, High Street
- WRENN ID
- endless-pewter-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- 160, High Street, WD17 2EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 112 961
- Coordinates
- 51.65331, -0.39272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 160 High Street is a mid-19th century building that was formerly the Three Crowns public house. It is two storeys tall and features a stucco façade. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has end wall stacks. On the first floor, there are two windows with 19th-century sash designs set within architrave surrounds. The ground floor has paired round-arched windows on either side of a round-arched central doorway. The windows are flanked by panelled pilasters and a central column that has a hop and vine capital. The doorway is also framed by panelled pilasters and a moulded arch. Quoin blocks are present only at the angles of the ground floor. This building is listed for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
160, High Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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