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Warwick Close, DORKING, RH5 4NL

Folly Lane is a backwater, close to the busy A24 dual carriageway. From this direction, with the road 100 yards behind the camera, Redlands Wood a Forestry Commission plantation can be seen in the distance.

Something of a feature of the A24 at Holmwood the sign over the door says "The Holly & Laurel Emporium". Suppliers of "new and reclaimed Stoves, Fireplaces, Gas Fires, Accessories and Flue Pipes" "together with a wide range of landscape furniture and other items of Architectural Salvage". See their website http://www.dorkingstoves.com for more information. Previously the Laurel and Holly Hotel it also looks a likely candidate for the Sawyers Arms, marked on the 1873 map.

The sign over the window has been painted over but the name J. Davies can still be made out. When the shop was still open there was a full-sized fibre-glass figure of a butcher which stood at the side of the A24 - it wore a boater and apron. I believe that this may have always been a butcher's shop - it was during the Second World War http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/10/a1982810.shtml.

Built in 1903 on the site of two ancient cottages to a design by Arnold Dunbar Smith for Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pethick_Lawrence as a country home for Emmeline Pethick Lawrence’s Esperance club for working class London girls. It was subsequently owned/occupied by author and journalist John Langdon-Davies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langdon-Davies , founder of PLAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_(aid_organisation). A sundial reading the motto, ‘Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours’ is on the south-east facing wall.

Craft and furniture store on the A24, housed in what was originally a pub, named the Sawyers Arms on the 1870-80 1:2,500 map and the Holly and Laurel on the 1896, 1914 and 1972 editions.

Grade II listed. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1028794

House built in 1901, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Grade II listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1028794. By the door is a blue plaque, installed by the Dorking Museum and The Dorking Society which states "Emmeline Pethick Lawrence 1867-1954 Frederick Pethick Lawrence 1871-1961 Suffragette leaders and peace campaigners lived here 1901-1921".