Spread Eagle Public House

SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, 93, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252994
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:
Spread Eagle Public House
Statutory Address:
SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, 93, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252994
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:
Spread Eagle Public House
Statutory Address 1:
SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, 93, HIGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, 93, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Rochford (District Authority)
Parish:
Rayleigh
National Grid Reference:
TQ 80584 90641

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:-

RAYLEIGH HIGH STREET TQ 8090 7/10001 No 93 Spread Eagle Public House GV II

House, now public house. Late C16, with late C18 and early C19 additions. Timber framed and brick, painted render; roof of tile with gable facing to High Street. Two storeys, 3-window range. Three bays of older structure survive; C20 fixtures and decorations make the interpretation of the original plan difficult; good jowled posts exposed at several points in first floor. First floor reglazed in late C18 or early C19, with sashes of an original design. Early C19 canted bay to right side, ground floor. 4-bay shopfront of early C19 design to centre and left hand ranges, returning. Plane of front wall sets back to right of facing gable. Roof largely rebuilt in C19, although some evidence that original collars reused. Lower two-storey range to left rear; C19 stack to outer wall of return. Forms a group with no 91 High Street (qv), and the Crown Public House opposite (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ8058490641

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
123050
Legacy System:
LBS

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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