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The Three Tuns was situated at 34 St Andrew Street. This grade-II listed pub, formerly known as The Black Lyon, is now used as an Indian restaurant.

Listed building details:

House, now public house with manager's flat above, 2 structures now occupied as single building. Front c1700, rear mid/late C16, both altered C19 and C20. Stuccoed brick front with Welsh slated roof over modillioned eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 4-bay front elevation of front range, both 2 storeys and attics. First floor front elevation with 4 slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows in architrave surrounds, first floor plat band. Ground floor with 2 doorways in first and third bay, with sash window between, modern half glazed doors and double leaf doors on diagonal at right (east) corner with Brewhouse Lane. East flank elevation has 1 sash window ground and first floors. Rear range has double jettied overhang, with small window set high in attic gable, which overhangs first floor which has 12 pane Yorkshire sash window at left; ground floor with small sash at left, central closed 8 pane window and door at right with timber bracket to jetty above. To roof, 2 box casement dormers. Rear timber-framed and plastered with old tiled roof and long plastered and brown brick chimneystacks. INTERIOR: ground floor bar area opened out, central C19 bar counters, rear wall has large fireplace with roll and cavetto moulded timber bressumer, which now forms doorway to rear wing, 2 steps lower. The position of the fireplace is not characteristic of C18 plans, but the adjoining properties to the west Nos 36 & 38 (qv) have a similar arrangement, and likewise have a C18 front. Upper floors and roof not inspected. (Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 13).

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