Duke's Head Public House

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TQ 1656 SE 12/148

LEATHERHEAD HIGH STREET (north side) No 57, Duke's Head Public House

(Formerly listed as Duke's Head Public House, HIGH STREET)

7.9.51

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 three 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 first floor between flanking full-height canted bays; at first floor above the canopy is a twelve-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the duke's head; and the flanking bays have four-pane sashes except at ground floor to the right where the window has been replaced by a doorway.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