The Spread Eagle Inn
THE SPREAD EAGLE INN, 37, AMWELL END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275195
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Spread Eagle Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE SPREAD EAGLE INN, 37, AMWELL END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275195
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Spread Eagle Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SPREAD EAGLE INN, 37, AMWELL END
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:
- THE SPREAD EAGLE INN, 37, AMWELL END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ware
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35920 14030
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE AMWELL END 829-1/9/11 (East side) 14/03/74 No.37 The Spread Eagle Inn
GV II
House, now public house. C17, refronted C18, much altered early C20. Colourwashed roughcast over brickwork front, old tiled roof with tall brown brick chimneystack at left. 2 storeys and attics, 2 gabled half dormers with 6-light mullion and transom wood casements, and central 3-light wood casement window on first floor. Ground floor has 3 recessed wooden windows, early C20, with moulded mullions and transoms and shallow upper ventilating lights, and 2 recessed entrance doors. Early C20 bar fittings. Timber-framed, plastered rear outshoot, with weatherboarded north gable and old tiled roof. Became The Spread Eagle after 1843, when the historic inn further south in Amwell End, was demolished for construction of the railway. Included for group value. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 24; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 3; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1967-; Branch Johnson W: Hertfordshire Inns: Letchworth: 1962-: 100).
Listing NGR: TL3592014030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412247
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 24
Branch Johnson, W, Hertfordshire Inns A handbook of Old Hertfordshire Inns and Beer Houses, (1962), 100
East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter, (1967)
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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