THE SPREAD EAGLE INN

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:: THE SPREAD EAGLE INN, 37, AMWELL END

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 412247
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W , Hertfordshire Inns A handbook of Old Hertfordshire Inns and Beer Houses, (1962), 100
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 24
'East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter' in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter, (1967)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.