Belmont Local History

The oldest surviving buildings in the Belmont area

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( #1   No. 139 Brighton Road - Sutton Lodge.   Grade II listed building.  Built c. 1760. )  <  depends whether counts as Belmont area  

# 2    No's 137/139 Downs Road (next to the entrance driveway to the Royal Marsden Hospital)  Semi-detached cottages built by local farmer John Overton for his workers, circa 1858.

# 3     No's 11/13 Cotswold Road (white weather-boarded property at the bottom of the road).  Semi-detached cottages built by local farmer John Overton for his workers, circa 1863.

# 4    Clapham Lodge, 13? Bawtree Close (cul-de-sac off Banstead Road South).  Detached property built for a well-to-do spinster recluse, circa 1865.  A Grade II listed building. 

# 5    No's 214/243 Brighton Road (facing the park). Semi-detached villas.  Built circa 1870.  Attractive flint frontage (survives on one of them anyway).

# 6   Terrace at bottom of Downs Road on south side.  Built, controversially, on common land, circa 1876.  Belmont's first terrace.  Recorded as 'Belmont Crescent' in the 1881 census.

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