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TQ 2549 NE
17/126

Lesbourne Road (north side, off)
Linden Court
Former London Country Bus Services Limited, 1932 Office block

(Formerly listed as London Country Bus Services Limited, 1932 Office block, Lesbourne Road)

G.V.
II
Bus Company Offices 1931-32. For East Surrey Traction Company ("Bell Street", p.114). Red-brown brick in English bond variant; plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic of two levels. Nine bays, the left bay canted at angle. First floor bond. Wide three-light multi-pane windows (sashes and casements) with stone cills, single-light to right bay, attic dormers with flat leaded roofs. Entrance, in second bay from right, has projecting, flat-roofed porch with stepped parapet with double board door under stepped, segmental brick arch. To its left, projecting stair tower rises through roof and has three slit windows below full-height mullion-and- transom window in triple-recessed segmental-brick-arched surround with stepped cill; the top portion of tower has chamfered corners and soldier-brick coping, and above it is similarly-coped offset stage; offset stack to front roof pitch above to left. Two short dormers only to upper attic level. Roof hipped at right end.

Right return: five bays. On ground floor, central raised panel with recessed segmental archway containing window and flanked by two-light casements; small-pane sashes above; large, transomed five-light dormer to lower attic level with smaller above.

Interior not inspected.

(Later C20 wing attached to left not included in item.) This office block was built by the East Surrey Traction Company prior to its absorption into London Transport.

"Bell Street", East Surrey (1974)

Listing NGR: TQ2559549929

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)