The Merry Horn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
The Merry Horn Public House
- WRENN ID
- blind-sill-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Merry Horn Public House, Brize Norton Road, Curbridge, OX29 7NY
- OS grid reference
- SP 330 089
- Coordinates
- 51.7779, -1.52285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Merry Horn Public House is a house that has been converted into a public house. It dates from the early 18th century, with a mid-18th century extension on the left side. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof. There is an 18th-century brick stack on the right end, while the left range has a stone ridge stack. The structure originally had a 2-unit plan but has been extended to a 4-unit plan.
It is two stories high with an attic and has a two-window range on the right. This section has timber lintels above a central 20th-century door and 20th-century windows, along with gabled roof dormers. The mid-18th century two-storey bay on the left has flat stone arches over a 20th-century door and a late 19th-century two-light casement window above an early 19th-century eight-pane sash window. The early 19th-century range to the right is made of similar materials and also has a two-storey, two-window range.
Inside, the early 18th-century block features stop-chamfered beams and a partition beam on the ground floor, along with an early 18th-century butt-purlin roof. There is a 19th-century quarter-turn staircase to the left.
Local climate
The Merry Horn Public House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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