Fake 48

Quite an old fake this one, rather tired Surrey clapboard behind, brick with trimmings and sash windows in front. Quite possibly built like this in the first place, by someone who wanted a prestige house on a prestige spot on the High Street, but who could not afford brick all the way through.

This end of the building, rather appropriately, occupied by the estate agents that fancy themselves, that is to say Hamptons.

Viewed here from just outside the Assembly Rooms Wetherspoon's, in the passage which leads to the Ashley Centre. High Street and Market Place off snap to the left.

I must have passed it hundreds of times over the years and never noticed before.

PS: Tuesday morning: on this morning's Ewell Village Counter-clockwise, I noticed a number of other, older buildings around Epsom and Ewell doing much the same thing, with cheap out-back and posh up-front. From where I associate to the much grander churches in Florence, most of which are at the same stunt. Large and rather tatty brick shed, rather like a cinema or something like that, out-back, all fancy marble work up-front. Polychrome even.