Built in the early sixteenth century as Place Manor House, the building was later used by King Charles I for his ill fated treaty with Cromwell and Parliament in 1645.
The manor house went on to become a coaching inn in the eighteenth century and the panelling you see upstairs in our Crown and Treaty rooms is said to be original, although it was sold to an American businessman who used it to furnish his office in the Empire State building in the 20's and 30's before being returned as a coronation gift to Elizabeth II who returned it to the inn in 1953.