This too is one of London’s Real Heritage Pubs and the description is as follows: “A lavish late-Victorian Young’s pub rebuilt in 1898 as part of the great pub boom. It’s a landmark Renaissance-style building facing the former, much lamented Young’s Brewery. The interior gives a very good idea of what a classy pub was meant to look like a hundred years ago. There are three rooms separated by screens though it is evident that the left-hand part was formerly subdivided (see the multiple doors and entrance mosaic to the ‘public bar’). The big room on the right is huge and probably always was a single space. It has a staircase leading to the upstairs rooms. Then comes a screen to the ‘dining room and lounge’ at the rear left. 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 (note the unusual pierced work in the spandrels) and most impressive these are too: like the screens they have great expanses of etched glass which makes the whole pub sparkle. The distinctive and attractive canopy over the main entrance is modern.

History across the road: Young’s Ram Brewery complex is one of the finest in the UK and retains buildings and machinery of considerable importance. It is grade II* listed but includes three grade II-listed buildings: the 18th-century former Brewer’s House, the 19th-century stables and Brewery Tap pub. The latter was built in 1883 as part of a rebuilding scheme by Henry Stock who was later the company architect for Charrington’s brewery. It was remodelled in the 1930s and was known as the Ram Inn until 1974. Sadly, brewing ceased in September 2006 and was transferred to the Charles Wells site in Bedford. The site has now been sold for redevelopment.”

The Spread Eagle is also a grade II listed building and the listing description is as follows: “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.”

The Spread Eagle featured on the Daytime Crawl of SW17, SW18 and SW11 in October 2004, the Evening Crawl of Battersea and Wandsworth in December 2007, the Gorringe, Graveney and Garratt: Daytime Crawl of Tooting, Earlsfield and Wandsworth in February 2010, and the From the Crimea to Death's Door via Cats, Birds and Breweries: Evening Crawl of Wandsworth and Battersea in April 2013.