Eagles Hotel

The Eagles Hotel is a complex building, likely dating to the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The main block faces south and is constructed of squared rubble stone with pilaster strips. A prominent square tower rises from this block, topped with a pyramidal slate roof and a modern sculpture of eagles. The tower features bracketed eaves and a group of attic windows flanked by quatrefoils. The second floor presents a group of three round-headed windows with sash glazing, while a string course runs along the facade. Below, similar three-light windows are found on the first and ground floors, with square heads to the sashes of the ground floor window and deep stone lintels over the first-floor window, each with a relieving arch and round heads to the sashes.

At the rear of the tower is a distinctive array of crenellated chimneys, with five square stone stacks, diagonally set at each end. To the left of the tower is a single bay with two-light windows on the second and first floors. A modern, flat-roofed extension to the left is not considered to be of special interest. To the right of the tower is a lower block with a splayed corner and a steeply pitched roof. This section has two bays facing south, separated by a pilaster, with two round-headed windows with sash glazing and paired round-headed lights on the second floor, and two square-headed windows with paired round-headed lights on the first and ground floors. The corner bay, marked by pilasters at the angles, features a quatrefoil window on the second floor and a round-headed entrance doorway with a heraldic shield above. A return to the right showcases a round-headed second-floor window and a square-headed first-floor window, mirroring the left side of the corner. Further to the right is a three-storey slate-hung block with mainly small-pane sash glazing and a small semi-hexagonal bay on the ground floor.

The north-facing elevation, on Church Street, is three storeys high and built of painted brick, facing Ancaster Square. A slightly projecting gabled bay is present here, with a blocked semi-circular window at its apex. This bay includes a camber-headed window on the second floor and another on the first. On the ground floor, a camber-headed window is visible to the right, with a former door to the left now blocked. Outer bays have windows at eaves level, with camber-headed windows on the first floor, and camber-headed windows on the ground floor (with one window blocked). To the left of this is a convex bay with small-pane sash windows on the second and first floors (modern glazing on the ground floor), alongside a boarded shop door with overlight.

To the right of this block stands a higher, three-storey, three-window block of painted brick. It features camber-headed small-pane sash windows on the second and first floors, and two horizontally proportioned windows under concrete lintels on the ground floor. A steeply pitched slate roof culminates in rectangular end chimneys. Further to the right, the hotel incorporates a lower 19th-century house constructed of squared grey rubble, with a slate roof and rectangular end chimneys. This house is three storeys high with three windows, deep stone lintels, and small-pane hornless sashes with marginal glazing. A two-storey semi-hexagonal bay is situated to the right. To the left, on the ground floor, there are three windows – the central and right-hand windows formerly served as doors. The gable facing Sexton’s House displays a modern door with a small window to the right, and two small windows to the left, all under a concrete lintel.