The Brewery Tap Public House and Attached Stables is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Inn, public house. 3 related planning applications.

The Brewery Tap Public House and Attached Stables

WRENN ID
grey-outpost-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1963
Type
Inn, public house
Address
The Brewery Tap Public House and Attached Stables, 3, Shirburn Street, Watlington, OX49 5BU
OS grid reference
SU 690 945
Coordinates
51.64526, -1.00411
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Brewery Tap Public House and attached stables is an inn, now functioning as a public house, dating from the early 19th century. The front is constructed of knapped flint with brick quoins and dressings, while the rear is made of brick and rendered materials. It features a gabled old tile roof with brick lateral stacks at the rear. The building has a three-unit plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a six-window range. There are gauged brick cambered arches over a 20th-century door and a late 19th-century door with an overlight. The ground-floor window arches have been altered to accommodate late 19th-century horned sash windows. The first-floor windows have flat brick arches, including four 18th-century cross windows with 20th-century opening lights. Additional details include a chequer brick storey band, a moulded wood cornice, and three gabled roof dormers with leaded casements. At the rear, there are 18th-century outshuts.

Inside, there is a timber-stud partition to the left and a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace. The interior is mostly from the 20th century, but it likely retains the original roof structure. Attached to the left is a carriageway and a two-storey brewhouse/stable range. This range is built of Flemish bond brick with flared headers and has a gabled old and 20th-century tile roof, along with a brick stack at the left end. The brewhouse features a 19th-century plank door and a three-light leaded casement to the left of the carriageway. The stable range at the rear has segmental arches over 20th-century doors, loft openings, and a plank loft door, as well as a timber lintel over the cartshed entry. The roof of the stable range is a queen-post design with clasped purlins.

Local climate

The Brewery Tap Public House and Attached Stables sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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