The Apple Tree

MINSTERWORTH A48 SO 71 NE (south side) 5/86 The Apple Tree II Former inn, now public house and restaurant. Late C17, C18, C19, minor C20 alterations. Right gable random rubble stone, with brick above from centre of first-floor windows; Flemish-bond brickwork front to left, English bond left bay beyond: tiled roof. 'L' plan; 2-window, 1 1/2-storey wing on left, 2-bay, 2 1/2-storey wing on right, with lean-to to part of front. Front to road; late C20 external brick chimney with offsets left return: 3-light casement, boarded shutters, cambered brick arch: vertical joint in brickwork, similar window to right. To right boarded door up 3 stone steps, under open lean-to porch on heavy timber posts, off low stone walls each side. To right stone gable, 3-light casement, leaded lights, timber lintel, left of centre; 2-light window in lean-to, small panes, concrete lintel. Above, half-hip left end, lean-to dormer with 2-light casement; triangular window at foot of gable on left, wide 3-light casement, leaded lights, cambered brick head, in centre, further triangular window at top of lean-to, on right. Above infilled oval in gable: ridge chimney on centre right wing. Rear angle infilled and extended late C20, not of special interest. Exterior may hide earlier work.

Listing NGR: SO7877217538