The Spread Eagle Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. A Georgian Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
The Spread Eagle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- dusk-zinc-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Spread Eagle Hotel, 17, Cornmarket, Thame, OX9 2BW
- OS grid reference
- SP 706 058
- Coordinates
- 51.74686, -0.97788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spread Eagle Hotel is an early 18th-century hotel located on the southwest side of Thame Cornmarket. The building features a rendered exterior, likely over brick, with a plinth and grey brick complemented by red brick dressings. It is three stories high with a five-window range, arranged in a 2:1:2 pattern, and has a three-story, two-window range to the left.
The central entrance consists of an eight-panel door framed by a segmental-headed architrave surround and flanked by rubbed brick Ionic pilasters with painted capitals. These support a cornice with a pulvinated frieze. The ground floor has segmental-headed 18-pane unhorned sash windows, each with a painted wood architrave surround and rubbed-brick segmental heads. A brick cornice separates the ground and first floors. The first and second floors feature segmental-headed 12-pane unhorned sash windows, also with painted wood architrave surrounds and segmental brick heads, along with a brick cornice between these floors and at the base of the panelled parapet.
To the left, there are panelled carriageway doors set within a segmental-headed carriageway arch, with a brick cornice between the ground and first floors. The first and second floors on this side also have 12-pane unhorned sash windows with similar detailing.
Inside, the hotel features a dog-leg staircase at the rear center with a baluster balustrade and fielded wood panelling in the ground floor right room.
Local climate
The Spread Eagle Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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