London Country Bus Services Limited Bus Garage With Attached Service Block
LONDON COUNTRY BUS SERVICES LIMITED BUS GARAGE WITH ATTACHED SERVICE BLOCK, LESBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377987
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- London Country Bus Services Limited Bus Garage With Attached Service Block
- Statutory Address:
- LONDON COUNTRY BUS SERVICES LIMITED BUS GARAGE WITH ATTACHED SERVICE BLOCK, LESBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377987
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- London Country Bus Services Limited Bus Garage With Attached Service Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONDON COUNTRY BUS SERVICES LIMITED BUS GARAGE WITH ATTACHED SERVICE BLOCK, LESBOURNE ROAD
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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:
- LONDON COUNTRY BUS SERVICES LIMITED BUS GARAGE WITH ATTACHED SERVICE BLOCK, LESBOURNE ROAD
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:
- TQ2561149896
Details
1.
5388
TQ 2549 NE
17/127
Lesbourne Road
(North Side)
London Country Bus Services Limited: bus garage with attached service block
II
G.V.
Bus Station garage and attached service block. 1931-2. For East Surrey Traction
Company ("Bell Street", p.114). Red-brown brick in English bond, rear of garage
rendered and with applied timber-framing; plain tile roof to garage, corrugated
felted roof to service block. Large, single-storey garage, roughly triangular on plan
with lower, single-storey, rectangular service block projecting forward from right end.
Small-pane windows.
Garage: 2 wide bus entrances with folding topglazed board garage doors; between
them a full-height, transomed window in hipped roofed projection; similar window
to canted left-end bay; roof hipped at left end, with apex taller than ridge of
main roof giving effect of pyramidal roof. At right end, narrow bay at right angles
with full-height, transomed, 2-light window links garage to service block.
Service block: 2 bay forecourt elevation has, on left, full-height, transomed,
2-light windows, central one with door; on right, full-height square-headed opening,
top part bricked-in, lower part with modern door and windows under canopy; parapet
with offset, soldier-brick coping below waney-edged-weather-boarded gable. Lesbourne
Road elevation: left-end bay, with parapet returned, has 3 tall windows in square-headed
recess; 6 lower bays to right have concrete lintel band over wide windows, right
one full-height, and soldier-brick coping; roof hipped at right end.
Rear of garage: brick plinth; taller gabled bays towards either end with braced
close-studding framing tall triple windows; rest of range has 3-light windows set
below eaves.
Interior of garage: wide-spanning, complex-strutted steel roof trusses; continuous
sky-lights providing good top-lighting.
This bus garage superseded that on Bell Street increasing the capacity of
the Reigate garage to 170 vehicles ("Bell Street", p.114).
"Bell Street", East Surrey (1974)
Listing NGR: TQ2561149896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289466
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
East Surrey in East Surrey, (1974)
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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