Former London Country Bus Services Limited, 1932 Office Block is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1987. Office block. 6 related planning applications.
Former London Country Bus Services Limited, 1932 Office Block
- WRENN ID
- late-sentry-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Reigate MP: Rebecca Paul (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1987
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Former London Country Bus Services Limited, 1932 Office Block, Linden Court, Lesbourne Road, RH2 7AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 255 499
- Coordinates
- 51.23473, -0.20238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 1931-32 office block, originally built for the East Surrey Traction Company before its absorption into London Transport. It is constructed of red-brown brick in English bond, with a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high with a two-level attic. It has nine bays, with the left bay canted at an angle. The first floor uses a different brick bond pattern. The windows are wide, three-light designs with multi-pane sashes and casements, and stone cills. The right bay has a single-light window. The attic has dormers with flat, leaded roofs.
The entrance, in the second bay from the right, features a projecting porch with a flat roof and a stepped parapet, topped with a double board door under a stepped, segmental brick arch. To the left of the porch is a projecting stair tower that rises through the roof. This tower has three slit windows to its lower portion, and a full-height mullion-and-transom window within a triple-recessed, segmental-brick-arched surround with a stepped cill. The upper portion of the tower has chamfered corners and soldier brick coping, topped by an offset stage and an offset stack on the front roof pitch to the left. There are only two short dormers on the upper attic level. The roof is hipped at the right end.
The right return has five bays. On the ground floor, a central raised panel features a recessed segmental archway containing a window and flanked by two-light casements. Above are small-pane sashes, and there is a large, transomed five-light dormer to the lower attic level, with a smaller dormer above it. The interior has not been inspected. A later 20th-century wing attached to the left side of the building is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Former London Country Bus Services Limited, 1932 Office Block receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 25 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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