The Eagle Vaults Public House

The Eagle Vaults Public House, located at Nos. 18 and 20 in Witney Market Square, is a house that has been converted into a public house. It dates back to the early 17th century, with an extension added to the rear in the early 18th century and a refronting that occurred around 1850. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with a 19th-century rendered front and a gabled roof covered in artificial stone slates, which is partly visible. It features a two-unit plan with through-passages to the center and right, and it was extended to a double-depth plan in the early 18th century. The structure stands three stories tall and has a three-window range. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door with a decorative overlight and a bracketed flat hood, while the right side has a through-passage. The ground-floor windows have moulded stone architraves, and there are mid-19th-century sash windows. A raised storey band and a moulded cornice are located beneath the parapet. At the rear, there is an early 18th-century block made of similar materials with a hipped roof.

Inside, the building features deeply chamfered beams and a quarter-turn staircase with early 18th-century turned balusters at the top. The attic at the front contains a 17th-century collar truss with trenching for through purlins.

No. 22, which is to the left of the public house, is a house that has been converted into a shop and is part of the public house. This building also dates to the 17th century and was refronted in the early and mid-19th century. It is built with similar materials, featuring stone slates on the front of the roof and early 19th-century stucco on the left side. The structure has an L-plan with a rear left range, standing two stories tall with a two-window range. The mid-19th-century doorway has 20th-century double doors, and there is a six-pane sash window and a 20th-century window set in moulded stone architraves to the right. The left side has an early 19th-century shop front, which includes an 8-pane sash above a 20th-century door and flanking bow windows with a moulded cornice. The rear includes 18th-century two-storey and one-storey wings, with roofs made of concrete tiles and corrugated iron, as well as a late 17th-century ovolo-moulded window architrave to the left. The first floor of this section was not inspected.