Description

TQ 1656 SE
12/148
7.9.51

LEATHERHEAD
HIGH STREET
(north side)

Duke's Head PH

GV
II

Inn, now public house. C17 and C18, remodelled in C19; altered in C20. Timber
frame with brick cladding and stucco facade; red tile roof. Single-depth front
range with coupled rear wings of unequal length. Two storeys and 3 bays; the
almost symmetrical C19 facade has painted quoins and a high banded parapet;
the principal doorway is offset slightly to the right, has a shouldered surround of
plain render and is protected by a flat canopy carried across at 1st floor
between flanking full-height canted bays; at 1st floor above the canopy is a 12-
pane sashed window with an exposed box and plaster cresting lettered "DUKES
HEAD" under a roundel showing the duke's head; and the flanking bays have 4-
pane sashes except at ground floor to the right where the window has been
replaced by a doorway. There is an extruded chimney stack at the right-hand
gable and a single chimney at the front left corner. At the right-hand end is a
single-storey flat-roofed modern addition (not of special interest), and the rear
slope of the roof carries down to the lower level of the rear wing, which has
various openings on this side, and on the other side is mostly covered by a
modern addition but has some exposed timber framing above this. Interior:
altered at ground floor and partition walls removed, but some remains of timber
framing are visible; otherwise, not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ1674056491

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26279742

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)