Eagle House

Eagle House is a substantial detached house built in 1705. It features brown brick with red dressings and has a hipped, steeply pitched old slate roof that extends to the eaves. The house has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a width of five windows; the central three windows are slightly set forward beneath a pediment. The entrance is centrally located and square-headed, adorned with a shell hood supported by carved consoles. It has a panelled half-glazed door with a 'Gothick' patterned fanlight above. The windows are square-headed, sash style, with flush frames and thick glazing bars, and there is a brick band between the storeys. The eaves are decorated with a modillion cornice, and the pediment features a segmental window flanked by two segmental pedimented dormers, which also have sash windows with thin glazing bars. The roof is topped with painted timber balustrading and an octagonal domed timber lantern that has a moulded cornice and a ball finial, along with tall end stacks that are also corniced.

Inside, Eagle House boasts a very fine interior. The wide panelled entrance wall runs the full depth of the house and includes the original well staircase leading to the first floor, featuring twisted balusters, carved brackets, and a ramped handrail. There is also an original secondary staircase that rises the full height of the house. The ground floor rooms are fitted with bolection moulded panelling, and one room on the right has a later panelled wall that may have originally been part of the hall. The first-floor rooms have original plain panelling, with some featuring original marble fire surrounds. The attic bedrooms continue the plain panelling along the slope of the roof. A pole staircase provides access to the lantern. Eagle House is considered a very important building and is probably the finest surviving example of a Queen Anne house in the Dutch style, as distinct from the Baroque style.