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

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  For the Record
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)