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Lesbourne Road, REIGATE, RH2 7LD

Pair of Victorian cottages in Lesbourne Road. On the left is part of Fonteyn Court, an apartment block completed in 2009 on the site of a former petrol station.

Two late 19th century buildings in Lesbourne Road. No 27 (now housing Gardenlink, a garden design company) was originally a butcher's shop. In 1907 it was fitted out as a dairy for the Reigate Industrial and Provident Society by architects Baker and Penfold, with tiles and murals by Carter & Co of Poole (the murals depicting in tiles a cattle scene and a milkmaid in the country). These have survived, and it is primarily because of this that this section of the building has been grade II listed. For listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1390716.

The exact date of this former Methodist Chapel is unknown - the foundation stones which normally record the building date and denomination of such buildings have been blanked off. Its inclusion on the 1896 1:2500 map but absence from the 1871 edition gives a range for the building date (and the existence of buildings either side of it in the earlier map, with a blank site where the building now stands probably implies an earlier date in the range). The Records of the Redhill and East Grinstead Methodist Circuit held by the Surrey History Centre at http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_457 include a resolution in 1947 to discontinue services and a document referring to its sale the following year. The National Register of Archives at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O82632 also refers to a Primitive Methodist Chapel in Lesbourne Road, with a link to the above records. It is now a warehouse for a company offering bulk storage of office files. It is locally listed.

An apartment block in Lesbourne Road completed in 2009, built on the site of a former petrol station. The name commemorates the ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn (see Image).

Now 'Chapel Warehouse', used for storage of company records.

Looking towards the distant junction, at which Lesbourne Road peels off to the right, and the continuing road becomes West Road (B2034).

For info on Bourne House, see Image

An apartment block in Lesbourne Road completed in 2009, built on the site of a former petrol station. The name commemorates the ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn (see Image).

An apartment block in Lesbourne Road completed in 2009, built on the site of a former petrol station. The name commemorates the ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn (see Image).

The plaque says "Rebuilt 1914, Rev F Davies, Vicar". Rev Davies was vicar of St Mary's Church from 1901 to 1929, and although at first sight this building has the appearance of a former chapel, it was in fact the church hall for St Marys, until superseded in 1963 by the present building (see Image). It was until recently a showroom for a sauna company.