This pub is not a listed building, but it is a One Star pub on the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) National Inventory as having an interior of Special National Historic Interest, and the description is as follows: "Rebuilt in 1890, the most impressive feature in this pub is the spectacular Victorian bar-back, and it also has a matchboard panelled bar counter and wall panelling on the dado.

This is a small and cosy pub, one of the few remaining old style Marylebone pubs. The three bay Victorian bar-back has good decorative etched mirrors on the left and right, and plainer mirror panels in the middle although the upper section does have in gold lettering the name of the pub, as well as a depiction of the eponymous eagle. Note the two small baffles on the left and right ends of the bar back. The three sided bar counter looks old, and possibly  original, but has been painted deep red as has the dado panelling throughout. There are three external doors so there were originally three bars (or two bars and off-sales), and on each side of the two main doors still in use are capitalled columns.

The WhatPub link is here: WhatPub/Golden Lion

The PHG link is here: PHG/Golden Eagle

The Golden Eagle featured on the Evening Crawl of Marylebone in April 2006, and the Auntie's Boozers: Evening Crawl of Fitzrovia and East Marylebone in December 2008.