London Country Bus Services Limited Bus Garage With Attached Service Block

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This bus garage superseded that on Bell Street increasing the capacity of the Reigate garage to 170 vehicles ("Bell Street", p.114).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