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Yardley Close, REIGATE, RH2 0DW

Large mid 19th Century house in Alders Road, subdivided into 6 flats in the 1980s. Locally listed.

Large 19th Century house in Alders Road, marked simply as Caverswall on older maps, now subdivided into flats.

Former lodge (with a later extension on the right) to a large house called Ivanhoe, now demolished and the land developed as Yardley Close in the 1970s. The lodge is by Read & MacDonald and was built in 1892. Locally listed. For a photo of both the lodge and Ivanhoe, seen from the rear, see https://www.oldreigate.com/index.php?goto=picture_67&prevurl=aldersroad.

An early Arts and Crafts house built around 1894. Locally listed.

Houses in Alders Road. No 10, in the background, was built around 1894 and is locally listed. For closer view see Image

A Surrey County Council community day special school for children with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties between the ages of 2 and 11 years. 

Large mid 19th Century villa in Wray Park Road, seen here while being converted into apartments. Locally listed.

The 1871 large scale map of Reigate shows Brightlands Road as a cut between Wray Park Road and Raglan Road, with only one large house in the road, surrounded by extensive grounds. This was Brightlands, situated where the modern house on the right of the photo now stands. It was only in the 1950s that the road started being developed further, with a few houses being built in the grounds of Brightlands, and it was not until the 1970s that Brightlands itself was demolished, to be replaced by the house seen here. The historic importance of Brightlands was that it was the home of the Victorian photographer, Francis Frith, whose photographic printing works was in Reigate - see Image For photos of the original house see http://www.francisfrith.com/reigate/photos/brightlands-c1885_r20312 and http://www.francisfrith.com/reigate/photos/francis-frith-at-brightlands-c1885_r20311 (the latter showing Francis Frith himself relaxing in the garden of the house).

House on the corner of Wray Park Road and Brightlands Road, with an address in the former even though accessed off the latter. Built in the c.1970s along with nos 1 and 1a Brightlands Road, on the site of the former 45 Wray Park Road.

A sheltered retirement development dating from 1987.