Three Tuns Antiques is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1977. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Three Tuns Antiques
- WRENN ID
- far-timber-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1977
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Three Tuns Antiques, 39, Couching Street, Watlington, OX49 5PX
- OS grid reference
- SU 689 944
- Coordinates
- 51.64466, -1.005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Three Tuns Antiques is a house that now functions as a shop, originally built in the 17th century, with some parts dating back to the 15th century. It was extended in the late 16th or 17th century and remodeled in the late 18th century. The building was originally timber-framed and is now rendered, featuring a gabled 20th-century tile roof and a brick ridge stack. It has an L-shaped plan with a rear left wing and stands two storeys tall with a three-window range.
The late 18th-century stone architrave surrounds the 20th-century door, while a mid-19th-century moulded cornice tops a 19th-century door with an overlight, and there is a 20th-century three-light window to the left and an 8-pane sash window to the right. There is a carriageway with double doors to the right and horned mid-19th-century sashes on the first floor. A fire insurance plaque is located above the door, and the eaves are dentilled.
The rear wing, which dates back to the 17th century, is two storeys tall and features timber framing with colourwashed brick infill and an old tile roof. There is also a later 17th-century timber-framed wing at the back that is one storey with an attic and has a gabled old tile roof. Inside, there are 18th-century doors, original beams and joists, and the left side of the building, which dates back to the 15th century, has a timber-framed right side wall with tension braces and a tension-braced crown-post truss at the rear.
Local climate
Three Tuns Antiques 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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