Description

TQ 1656 SE
12/147
7.9.51

LEATHERHEAD
HIGH STREET
(west side)

Nos. 53 and 55
(formerly listed as No.43 and 45)

GV
II

Formerly The Blue Bird PH. House, now 2 shops with offices over. Probably later
C17, much altered. Perhaps of timber-framed construction but now roughcast,
with red tile roof. Rectangular 2-unit plan. Two storeys and 2 bays, with attics;
modern shop fronts inserted at ground floor; sashed windows of 4 and 12 panes
at 1st floor; steeply-pitched roof with two 6-pane sashed dormers flanking a
chimney stack on the slope. (Flat-roofed addition to the rear, not of special
interest.) Interior altered. Forms visual group with The Dukes Head PH to the
right (q.v.), and is included for group value.

Listing NGR: TQ1673056484

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26485618

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)