The Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge

The house was built in 1576 as Place House for Sir John Bennett; part of it came down when Oxford Road was widened in the 18th century for coaching traffic, and the original edifice was two thirds larger than the building that survives. Commissioners for Charles I and for Parliament negotiated here between 30 January and 22 February 1645 in the failed Treaty of Uxbridge, which gives the pub its name. The original oak panelling was sold on 24 May 1930 to Louis L. Allen, a New York antiques dealer, for his Madison Avenue gallery; Armand Hammer bought it in 1945 and installed it in his office on the 78th floor of the Empire State Building, and in 1953 Hammer gave it to Elizabeth II as a coronation present, whereupon the V&A decided to return it. The Grade II* listing was made on 8 May 1950 as list entry 1080148 and amended on 6 September 1974.