Spread Eagle Public House

The Spread Eagle Public House is a building that originated as a house in the late 16th century, with additions made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It features a timber frame and brick construction, with painted render and a tiled roof that has a gable facing High Street. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range. Three bays of the original structure remain, but 20th-century fixtures and decorations complicate the understanding of the original layout. The first floor has good jowled posts visible at several points, and it was reglazed in the late 18th or early 19th century with sashes that reflect an original design. There is an early 19th-century canted bay on the right side of the ground floor. The centre and left-hand sections feature a four-bay shopfront designed in the early 19th century, with the front wall setting back to the right of the facing gable. The roof was largely rebuilt in the 19th century, although some original collar beams may have been reused. To the left rear, there is a lower two-storey range with a 19th-century stack on the outer wall of the return. The building forms a group with number 91 High Street and the Crown Public House opposite.