On its sale in 1910 Stratton Park was described as an E-shaped Elizabethan house, and Pevsner describes a 'marvellous late seventeenth-century staircase with openwork acanthus panels'. Stratton was purchased by the Barnett family in 1764, and Adam was employed to redecorate the drawing room in 1783. It is not known if designs were made, or executed, for any other rooms of the house. The building was refaced in 1878, sold in 1910, and between 1910 and 1939 was the home of Parkfield School for Boys. During the Second World War it was commandeered by the army, and was subsequently demolished in 1959.

Literature:

A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29; N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, 1968, p. 56; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume I, pp. 253-54

Frances Sands, 2011