Spread Eagle Hotel
SPREAD EAGLE HOTEL, NEWLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122590
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Spread Eagle Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- SPREAD EAGLE HOTEL, NEWLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122590
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Spread Eagle Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPREAD EAGLE HOTEL, NEWLAND STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SPREAD EAGLE HOTEL, NEWLAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82138 14494
Details
1. 1841 NEWLAND STREET (South-East Side) Spread Eagle Hotel (formerly listed under High Street) TL 8214 1/58 1.3.50.
II* GV
2. A mid-late C16 timber-framed and plastered building altered in the C17 and with C18 fenestration on the front. There is a large gabled wing at the north-west end and the main block has 4 smaller gables, the one at the south- west end is a Dutch gable surmounted by the figure of an eagle and the remaining gables have early C19 cut and pierced bargeboards. 2 storeys. The windows are double-hung sashes, mainly with glazing bars. The north-west gable has a 3 light bay on the 1st storey and a wide range of windows on the ground storey with a ground storey bow window at the south-west corner. The centre gable has a 2 storey 3-light bay window and the Dutch gable has a C19.bay window on the 1st storey and a C20 shop on the ground storey. 2 prominent tall chimney stacks rise on the front. There is a cart entrance at the south-west end. The north-west gable bears a plaque with the date 1300 (C19 or C20). Awing at the rear at the north-east end is of the C15, with a jettied upper storey. The interior is mainly C20 but part has exposed beams. Roof tiled. RCHM (31)
No 47, the Spread Eagle Hotel and Nos 53 to 57 (odd) form a group with Nos 56, 58A and 58 and Nos 60 to 66 (even).
Listing NGR: TL8213814494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113556
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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