The Spread Eagle

The Spread Eagle is a public house located in a terraced street, positioned on an old street line, with its gable-end to the right extending well forward of the Lyric Buildings facade. The building features a painted roughcast and stucco low facade that is two storeys high and has a cellar, comprising five bays. It has a slate roof with two small roof lights and a raised band that separates the roughcast ground floor from the stuccoed first floor.

On the first floor, there are five closely-spaced plate-glass sash windows, each with moulded 19th-century stucco surrounds and sills supported by consoles. The ground floor includes a cellar opening in the first bay, followed by a broad paired 4-pane sash window set in a late 20th-century timber casing with a cornice and fluted pilasters, roughly located in the second bay. In the fourth and fifth bays, there is a corniced timber casing around a 4-pane sash window with a cellar opening beneath, a narrower 4-pane sash window, and a doorway featuring a 5-panel door.

During an inspection in 1981, the ground floor appeared quite different, with a sash window to the right that had part of its architrave missing, followed by a doorway with pilasters and a cornice, and an adjacent sash window, all within the same stucco casing of pilasters and cornice. The building was under renovation at the time of inspection, with the interior mostly removed except for some thin beams. The inner walls are made of rubble stone and show significant evidence of alteration. The building also contains 19th-century pegged oak tie-beam and collar trusses.