London Country Bus Services Limited Bus Garage With Attached Service Block

This is a bus garage with an attached service block, constructed between 1931 and 1932 for the East Surrey Traction Company. The building replaced an earlier garage on Bell Street and increased the capacity of the Reigate garage to 170 vehicles. It's built of red-brown brick in English bond, with the rear of the garage rendered and featuring applied timber framing. The garage has a plain tile roof, while the attached service block has a corrugated felted roof.

The garage itself is roughly triangular in plan, with a lower, rectangular service block projecting forward from the right end. The front elevation features two wide bus entrances with top-glazed, folding garage doors. A full-height transomed window is located in a hipped roofed projection, with a similar window in a canted left-end bay. The roof is hipped at the left end, creating a pyramidal roof effect. A narrow bay at the right end, with a full-height, transomed, two-light window, connects the garage to the service block.

The service block’s front elevation has two bays, with a full-height, transomed, two-light window with a central door on the left, and a full-height square-headed opening (partially bricked-in with a modern door and windows under a canopy) on the right side. A parapet with offset, soldier-brick coping sits below a waney-edged weather-boarded gable. The Lesbourne Road elevation features tall windows in a square-headed recess and wide windows with a concrete lintel band.

The rear of the garage has a brick plinth and taller gabled bays towards either end, featuring braced close-studding framing and tall triple windows. The remaining section has three-light windows set below the eaves. Inside the garage, the roof is supported by wide-spanning, complex-strutted steel trusses, with continuous skylights providing ample natural light.