Eagle And Child Public House

TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN HIGH STREET (South side) Whitwell

12/160 No. 81 27.5.68 (Eagle and Child P.H.)

GV II

House, now a public house. C16 or earlier jettied E crosswing, late C16 storeyed rebuild of hall range, internal chimney early C17, chimney at NE corner C17 replacing dragon-post, mentioned as an inn in 1725, front jetty underbuilt in brick and upper parts roughcast with date '1747' in oval, windows and general renovation probably on sale in 1836 to William Lucas brewer of Hitchin. Timber frame on stuccoed brick sill, roughcast generally, dark weatherboarded W end, painted brick to front on ground floor. Steep old red tile roofs. A T-plan building on street front facing N. 2-storeys, 4 windows N front has 2- and 3-lights flush casement windows with moulded surround and small panes. Very steep-pitched gabled wing on E end with a tall half-octagonal brick chimney on diagonal at NE corner in painted English-bond brickwork with 2 rebuilt diagonal square shafts on top. 6-panel fielded door next crosswing up steps in heavy frame with flat hood on shaped brackets. Wooden bracket and hanging signboard on crosswing. Large central chimney a third from W end in front slope of roof. Single storey C18 brick and timber frame weatherboarded hipped rear wing at SE. Interior shows framework of an old 2-bays crosswing with clasped-purlins and adjacent jettied faces on N and E and dragon-beam (cased) cut back for corner chimney trimmed by diagonal stop-chamfered beam. Cavetto and cyma elaborately moulded crossed floor beams in hall range are mason-mitred and supported on the jowl of a post in rear wall. Axial cased beam in W bay up one step. Cellar under crosswing and stair in rear angle and to S of inserted internal chimney with very elaborately moulded fireplace beam of C17 date. Holes for wattle and daub infill in framing of W wall of crosswing exposed as screen in bar. 2 recesses in rear of fireplace which is on the E side of the stack. Probably a 3-bays hall range with a parlour at W beyond a 2-bays hall and the older E parlour wing used as a service end to E of entrance. (Branch Johnson (1962)109). Cussans notes that Robert Stanley Earl of Derby whose badge was the Eagle and Child, was granted nearby Stagenhoe Manor in 1488 and it remained in his family for only a century (Cussons (1874)II 128).

Listing NGR: TL1835321141