[1][2] Jury Street House was built in the 16th century, and was originally the property of Ward of Barford, an Elizabethan merchant.
In 1654 it was purchased by Sir Simon Archer, MP then local Justice of the Peace, as his town residence.
The Archer family of Umberslade in Tanworth-in-Arden, who added the frontage and made extensive alterations, then turned Jury Street House into the Three Tuns Inn.
In 1800 the inn was sold to John Evans, who divided it into two town houses, numbers 17 and 19 Jury Street.
It was handed over to the United States military in 1943, which used it as an Officers' Club, adding the "tower" extension.