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Reigate Manor began life as a very substantial family house called The Brokes built, it is thought, in 1780. The house had a large estate fronting the London Road stretching from what is now Beech Road down to what is now Brokes Road, neither of which roads existed in those far off days.

In 1890 the estate was significantly increased by the acquisition of a large parcel of land fronting the south side of upper Beech Road.

When The Brokes was put up for sale by the Woolley family in 1920, the estate was described as having “long and valuable frontages to Reigate Hill and Beech Road, portions of which would be immediately available for the erection of houses of a good class.”

Dame Rebecca Inglis, a wealthy lady living in a large house in Beech Road, did not want “houses of a good class” spoiling her view to the south so in December 1922 she purchased the entire Brokes estate. She hived off for herself the land which fronted Beech Road and then in September 1923 put the house, with its smaller grounds, back on the market. Unlike most local house sales of the time The Brokes was offered with the option that the house could be used as a school, club or hotel.