Eagle House

Eagle House is a building comprising houses, now used as a restaurant, offices, and dwellings. It dates to the mid-19th century, incorporating a 17th-century core. The exterior is painted brick with a Welsh slate roof and a brick end stack to the right. The building has a two-unit plan with wings to the rear, and extends over three storeys and a cellar. The front has a five-window range. The windows are largely 6/6 sashes with grooved stucco lintels and wrought-iron guards on the second floor, and 3/3 sashes above. A deep boarded soffit runs along the eaves. Number 17 has a central entrance with a 6-panel door in a panelled case, under a moulded flat hood supported by plain pilasters. A blocked doorway sits to the right, and a late 19th-century tripartite light with moulded mullions and coloured leaded lights to the left. Number 20 has a central entrance with a 20th-century half-glazed door and an overlight with glazing bars, again under a moulded flat hood on plain pilasters. Flanking this are plate-glass windows in early 20th-century cases with moulded flat hoods on consoles and plain pilasters.

The rear includes a gable wing with a steep pitched roof, a tall composite brick lateral stack, and a brick end stack. Another wing has weather-boarded first-floor cladding under a corrugated iron roof, above a mid-19th-century brick and rendered brick ground floor, featuring three 2/2 sashes and a 20th-century stable door. A 19th-century four-panel door sits in a chamfered frame, alongside a 2/2 sash with leaded lights. A mid-19th-century casement window is located above a passageway. A parallel wing (to Number 20) has 20th-century fenestration to the ground floor, with a 19th-century light and casement above. The rear gable reveals an earlier roof line.

The interior of Eagle House includes 18th-century panelling in the entrance hall, passage, and front and rear ground floor rooms, salvaged from Acton Scott Hall and Bitterley Court. There is exposed 17th-century box-framing with chamfered ceiling beams, massive frame posts, and a 19th-century staircase with turned balusters. The first floor exhibits exposed timber-framing, including a queen strut truss and jowelled posts, as well as wattle and daub. A fireplace has reused chamfered stone reveals. To the rear is an Oddfellows’ Hall, featuring deal boarding, pendant-decorated trusses, and a cast-iron fire surround with a cornucopia and a dove of peace.