The Spread Eagle in Parkway. Picture: Ewan-M

Published: 28 October, 2013
by DAN CARRIER

THE owners of a popular Camden Town pub have revealed plans to put right building works completed without planning permission eight years ago.

Youngs Brewery had changed the interior of The Spread Eagle pub in Parkway without getting the required consent. Builders removed the original 19th century staircase, its balustrade and a plaster stair enclosure that runs from the ground floor into the basement. They also covered a fireplace with wooden panelling.

Now Camden Council is negotiating with the brewery to have the building, listed in 1974, put back to how it was.

At the same time, the brewery want to convert the first floor into a dining room and then revamp upper floors to make two new flats for staff to live in.

The pub was once three terraced houses built in the mid-1800s, and, as well as being a pub, was used by dairy farmers and poultry sellers F Higgs and Son.

Planning officers say the flats will provide good accommodation for staff and that the dining room was originally planned in the mid-20th century but never built.

The proposed work has been detailed in applications published online by the Town Hall. Youngs also owns the Bull and Gate pub in Kentish Town and is currently working on plans to refurbish it.