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 The Running Horse - Bridge Street, Leatherhead, UK
N 51° 17.661 W 000° 19.922
30U E 686008 N 5685939
The Running Horse is a public house located at the south west end of Bridge Street, in Leatherhead, close to the old arch bridge that crosses the River Mole.
Waymark Code: WM170VD
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/16/2022
Views: 2
The pub sign,
shown in the photos, is attached to a post at the entrance to the pub's car
park. The sign shows the name of the brewery across the top part and the name of
the pub along the bottom part. In the centre is a colour picture of a racehorse,
in full flight, with a jockey , in stable colours, sat on top.
Wikipedia has an
article about the bridge that tells us:
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The Running Horse is a pub in the
town of Leatherhead, Surrey, England.
Dating back to 1403, on the bank of the River Mole, the Running
Horse is located in one of the oldest buildings in Leatherhead.
Built in the 15th century on land belonging to the church, The
Running Horse was originally known as Rummings House, after
Eleynor Rumminge who was written about by Henry VIII's poet John
Skelton. The poem can be found on a wall in the pub.
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The building is
Grade II* listed with the
Historic England website advising:
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House, now public house. Probably
later C15, altered, and with early C19 addition to rear. Timber
frame covered with pebble-dashed render painted white, roof of
red tiles but with 4 courses of stone slates over the eaves; the
rear addition also rendered and painted white, with slate roof.
The principal element is L-plan consisting of a short open-hall
(now ceiled) parallel to the street with a receding 2-bay
storeyed cross-wing at the right-hand end. Two low storeys, the
upper floor of the wing jettied to the front; the hall range has
a doorway next to the junction with the wing, under a simple
pitched canopy, a 6-pane fixed window to the left and a small
2-light casement under the eaves at 1st floor; the gable wall of
the wing has a 2-fight horizontal sliding sash offset left at
ground floor and a 2-light casement in the jettied upper floor.
The left gable of the hall range has a large external chimney
stack, inserted doorways each side of this and small casement
windows of one and 2 lights above them.
The right- hand return wall of the wing has an extruded chimney
to the front bay (now enclosed at ground floor by a small
flat-roofed toilet block), a 2-light casement at 1st floor of
the 2nd bay, and various additions below and to the rear which
are not of special interest.
The rear addition is rectangular, 2 storeys and 2 bays, with a
central doorway and rectangular bay window immediately to the
right of this, a 16-pane sashed window to the left and 2 similar
windows at 1st floor. Interior: some timber-framing is exposed
at ground floor, but the principal features of interest are
visible only on the upper floors (which were not accessible at
the time of the survey): a moulded truss in the hall range, and
a matching open truss in the wing, with a crown-post roof.
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Name of Artist: Unknown
Date of current sign: Unknown
Date of first pub on site: Unknown
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