Eagle

Go for the original architectural features (once the city's most important coaching inn); rambling rooms with two medieval mullioned windows and remains of two possibly medieval wall paintings, two fireplaces dating to around 1600, lovely worn wooden floors and plenty of pine panelling, dark red ceiling left unpainted since World War II to preserve signatures of British and American airmen worked in with Zippo lighters, candle smoke and lipstick, Greene King and two guests; children welcome, heavy wooden seats in attractive cobbled and galleried courtyard, open all day and can get very busy