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At the centre of Wandsworth, this splendid, Grade II listed late Victorian pub is on CAMRA's London Regional Inventory. Original features include extensive etched glass and an external canopy. A Heritage Pub with "An historic pub interior of national importance". The pub serves 3 regular cask-conditioned beers: Youngs London Original, Youngs London Special and St Austell Proper Job. Youngs Winter Warmer is served in season (Dec & Jan) plus an occasional guest from the Sambrooks Brewery across the street.
A traditional pub for young and old alike.
The public bar to the left can be hired for private functions.
TV sports.
Historic Interest
Grade II listing:- A late 19th Century public house with a good interior. It is of 3-storeys comprising a 4-bay centre flanked by advanced quoined end-pavilions. Red brick with stone dressings and tiled roof. Above stone stallrisers a glazed ground floor of leaded lights is framed by a fanciful pilaster order supporting the fascia. An iron and glass porch projects from the main entrance. The upper floors carry a Flemish Renaissance-type reticulation of pilasters and bandcourses, framing the windows and rising to discontinuous cornices. The 2 exterior angles of each end-pavilion carry fanciful stumpy obelisks. The west pavilion is crowned by a 4-storey Dutch gable with sunflower plaques in moulded brick. In the interior the saloon bar is backed by a wall of etched mirror-glass panels with delicate ribbon and foliage motifs, the whole giving a brilliant effect. The good modern canopy over the counter houses glass panels from a roof light painted with birds and foliage.
Three star - A pub interior of outstanding national historic importance
Listed status: II
UPDATE 2020.
A refurbishment has recently been carried and therefore the photos are out of date.
A lavish late-Victorian Young’s pub, rebuilt in 1898 during the great pub boom. It’s a landmark Flemish Renaissance-style building across the road from the former, much-lamented Young’s Brewery. The interior gives a very good idea of what a classy late Victorian pub could look like. There are three rooms separated by screens though the multiple doorways suggest the left-hand public bar was formerly subdivided.
The room on the right is huge and probably always was a single space (it has a staircase to the toilets and hotel rooms, cf. the Warrington, Maida Vale). Note the octagonal skylight with obscured wire glass panes, (the coloured stained glass with floral motifs was unfortunately lost during the 2020 refurbishment), below which is a decorative plaster frieze. Then comes a screen to the ‘dining room and lounge’. This area is largely newly fitted.
All areas at the Spread Eagle are connected by a three-sided servery, still with its original counter and back fittings. It envelops a large publican's office, now mostly occupied by an accessible toilet. The pub has extensive expanses of etched glass which makes the place sparkle. The distinctive and attractive canopy over the main entrance seems original.
UPDATE 2020.
A refurbishment has recently been carried and therefore the photos are out of date.
A lavish late-Victorian Young’s pub, rebuilt in 1898 during the great pub boom. It’s a landmark Flemish Renaissance-style three-storey building across the road from the former, much-lamented Young’s Brewery. Ground floor of polished granite with pilasters having decorative capitals and red brick upper storeys. The distinctive and attractive iron and glass canopy which projects from the main entrance across the street seems original. The interior gives a very good idea of what a classy late Victorian pub could look like with extensive expanses of etched glass which makes the place sparkle.
The left-hand public bar has entrance doors on the left and also double doors on the right hand side that probably led to a former off sales, in which case a partition has been lost. It retains the original bar back of three bays with large mirror panels but most of the lower bar back shelves have been lost to fridges. The panelled bar counter curved on the left hand side looks original, although unfortunately now considerably shortened. A full height timber and glazed panelled screen forms the division with the room on the right and still retains its door with ‘Public Bar’ etched and frosted panel; along the middle are etched mirror-glass panels with delicate ribbon and foliage motifs.
The room on the right is huge and probably always was a single space (it has a staircase to the toilets and hotel rooms upstairs, cf. the Warrington, Maida Vale); the modest vestibule looks modern. The bar back here is an extension of the mainly glazed partition but with mirror panels also reaching to the ceiling and a doorway for the staff to the public bar. Sadly, most of the lower bar back shelves have been lost to fridges. A door in the bar back leads to what was the original large publican's office, most of which is now an accessible toilet. At the rear there is an indentation in the full height screen with more impressive mirror panels including ones with floral and avian decoration. This small recess has a modern screen separating it from the servery, and contains a table and seating now accessed from the dining area. The panelled bar counter which is curved on the right hand side looks original.
At the rear of the room is an octagonal skylight, with plain obscured wire glass panes (the coloured stained glass with floral motifs was unfortunately lost during the 2020 refurbishment), below which is a decorative plaster frieze. On either side of the door to the former publican's office are two short screens (approx 2' x 1') with ornate mirror panels depicting flowers. A tiled, cast iron and wood surround fireplace with a real coal fire may be original.
Another full height screen with lots of etched and frosted panels having floral designs along the middle row separates the right hand room from another room at the rear left. It retains two doors both with ‘Dining Room and Lounge’ deep cut wording in them. This room is almost entirely newly fitted, the exception being the wood surround to the recess mentioned above, and is now used as a dining room.
This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 2 regular beers.
Spread Eagle, Wandsworth
Changing beers typically include: St Austell - Proper Job , Young's (seasonal)
Sports TV
Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals
Family Friendly
Disabled Access
Dog Friendly
Accommodation
Function Room
Real Fire
Separate Bar
Smoking
Wi Fi
Real Ale
Real Heritage Pub
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