Building record 1186901000 - THE MITRE INN, MITRE STREET

Grade II. Inn, now public house. Mid-late C17, altered C20. Coursed squared limestone, some timber-framing, plain-tile roof, brick front lateral stack, and stone rear lateral stack. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Wide, old plank door to right of centre with 2 panel mouldings and moulded wood surround in C20 gabled wood porch. 12-pane sash window to ground floor right of porch, otherwise wood mullion and transom windows to ground and 1st floors, all those to ground floor with flat-arched heads, those to 1st with wood lintels. 3 gabled roof dormer windows. Single-storey painted brick extension to left with lean-to roof to left. Rear elevation has large rear lateral stone stack with rebuilt brick flues, small rendered 2-storey shallow wing to right of stack, and some timber-framing in square panels with brick infill. INTERIOR: ground-floor rooms have diamond stop-chamfered spine beams. Middle room has large open fireplace with bressumer. Small room to right end has corner fireplace. Stone cellar. Staircase from ground floor to attic, partly rearrranged C20 has barleysugar twist balusters to upper flight on vases and serpentine splat balusters. 3-bay collar truss roof. (Elliott JJ: Buckingham: London: 1975-: 198-9) (B1).