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' Banstead House (not to be confused with Banstead Hall, which stood a few hundred yards to the north and is out of shot in this photo). Now demolished. Built circa 1860s using crunch chalk from the railway cuttings of the new Epsom Downs line and faced with brick. It seems to have initially shared an owner with Basing House and Banstead Hall, the other two big houses between Bolters Lane and the Brighton Road which were built at approximately the same time; the original owner was probably Charles Garrett, one of the railway contractors who was building the new line. '