The Feathers
The Feathers, 42, High Street, Merstham, Surrey, RH1 3EA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385236
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Feathers
- Statutory Address:
- The Feathers, 42, High Street, Merstham, Surrey, RH1 3EA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385236
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Feathers
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Feathers, 42, High Street, Merstham, Surrey, RH1 3EA
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Feathers, 42, High Street, Merstham, Surrey, RH1 3EA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Reigate and Banstead (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28995 53362
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 June 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 2853 SE
902/3/10009
Merstham
HIGH STREET (East side)
No 42 (The Feathers)
(Formerly listed as No. 36 The Feathers Hotel)
GV
II
Public house. 1911 for Nalder & Collyer, brewers, with C18 rear parts and C17 outbuildings. Main façade red brick to ground floor, half-timbered and rendered on first floor. Rear parts red brick, some painted. Red clay tile roofs, with prominent ridge, end and mid-roof stacks.
PLAN. Central corridor plan, extending from main entrance with dining room to the right with service rooms behind. Main bar areas to the left.
EXTERIOR. Two storeys. Front elevation divided into two parts slightly angled to one another. Symmetrical, three-bay part to right with central timber porch supporting an open balustraded balcony. two ground floor windows with semi-circular headed centre lights and small paned flanking lights (also small panes in lower centre part of left-hand window). Upper storey under three prominent gables and with three large windows. Central window reflects the detail of the lower ones. Side windows with small-paned casement frames. Left-hand part of main elevation also symmetrical and of three bays. Ground floor windows of small panes. One balustraded balcony in centre. Upper side windows of one and two lights with small-paned casements. Large window in similar style in centre; gable over. Inn-sign with Prince of Wales' feathers hanging from beam projecting from roof.
Left-hand return with two-bay timber porch and balustraded balcony over; bulbous corner posts and gable over. Rear parts of plain brick mostly with sash windows. Single storey, plain C17 outbuilding.
INTERIOR. Existing ground floor plan with some amendments, but retaining compartmented form of original plan, with Art Nouveau fireplaces. Parts of the original fittings survive, such as a glazed door, decorative window glass and etched mirror with the Prince of Wales' feathers and surrounding woodwork.
A well-detailed and architecturally ambitious Edwardian public house in a half-timbered vernacular style which retains much of its original plan form and some original fittings. Forms a group with No 34 High Street (item 3/94), Merstham Grange (item 3/105) and The Home Farm House (item 3/93).
Dated: 5th October 2000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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