Description

SS 23 06 BUDE-STRATTON FORE STREET (west side), STRATTON

13/184 The Tree Inn
5.3.53

GV II

Public house, formerly house. C16 origins, C19 and C20 alterations and additions.
Whitewashed and plastered to front, some walls of stud with brick nogging, slate
roof. Brick chimney to rear, chimney of local brick repaired in C19 or C20 brick
to left gable end. Rear courtyard plan with coach entrance between 2 ranges
linked at first floor level above coachway. Former hall probably to the right of
the coach entrance, rear right wing may have been heated parlour, with the kitchen
and service rooms in the range to the left. House built against slope of Fore
Street and 2 storeys and basement at left end, 2 storeys at right end. Right hand
range and coach entrance separately roofed and at a slight angle to left hand
range. Long 4 + 1 + 2 window front with platband on left hand range. C19 and C20
fenestration, casements to first floor, sashes to ground floor. Ground floor
window left tripartite sash, 12 panes per light; to left of coachway, 16 pane
sash; to right of coachway tripartite sash, 16 panes to central light, 4 panes to
outer lights; ground floor window right, double sash, 10 panes per light. First
floor windows in left hand range 3-light casements. 8 panes per light, similar
window above coach entrance and to first floor right. Similar 4-light window to
right of coach entrance. C16 arched blocked timber doorway from coachway into
left hand range.
Interior. Ground floor room right has partly blocked fireplace at right gable
end; 2 cross beams. 1 chamfered and stopped, 1 boxed in. Ground floor rear
right has large fireplace with fireplace beam. Left hand range has exposed
ceiling beams and fireplace with chamfered stopped beam. Trusses over right hand
range pegged and rough hewn. Visible trusses over left hand range C19, with one
surviving pegged collar rafter truss. C19 dogleg stair with stick balusters at
rear of left range.
Anthony Payne, retainer to the Grenvilles of Stowe, is said to have been born here
in 1610. Early C20 drawings in the possession of the owner show a gable above the
coach entrance with an oriel window carried on brackets.

Listing NGR: SS2302406430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434624

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