FROM horse troughs to General Montgomery's Second World War bunker, more than 100 structures across the borough have been given local listed status.
Cast iron fingerposts and mile markers – the satnavs of a bygone era – have been included by Reigate and Banstead Borough Council on the list of objects of historical value, as have 19th century caves, commemorative plaques and residential homes.
Unlike statutory listing – the gradings issued by English Heritage – locally listed status does not give additional protection against demolition or alteration.
However, it is a material consideration when it comes to considering planning applications and is recognised by local plan and national planning policies.
A number of the 102 new additions were suggested by the Horley Local History Society and member Brian Buss welcomed the listings.
He told the Mirror: "We don't want these things to be knocked about, knocked down or removed without anybody knowing about it. These things are part of our heritage.
"We have got to have progress but there is no reason why some effort cannot be put into preserving the past."
Among the locally listed items suggested by the society were the former cinema in Massetts Road, Horley, the facade of which was completed in 1925, and Stoney Way, off nearby Victoria Road, which was constructed of 16th century "periwinkle stone".
Fascinating features of east Surrey's Second World War defences also appear in the list. Wartime additions include the Reigate Hill underground control centre of southern command headquarters, known as "Monty's hideout" and built by the Royal Engineers in 1941. An anti-aircraft ammunition depot in Park Lane, Banstead, has also been given the listed status, as has an anti-tank gun emplacement in Sidlow Bridge, and mural-decorated air raid shelters at St John's Primary School in Pendleton Road, Redhill.
The school building itself, which dates from 1884, is also awarded the new status.
Mines in Gatton Park, the 1938 telephone exchange building in Reigate's Church Street and Priory School in Banstead were also on the list signed off by the council's planning committee last Wednesday.
It is the culmination of consultation work which started in 2005.
Gwyther Joyce, chairman of the architecture and planning committee at the Reigate Society, said the listings were "excellent" news.
"It has been a long time coming but it is very welcome by me and the whole society," she said.
"This does not protect them as such but it does recognise their importance.
"People don't realise these things are there.
"They can go, and this will help stop that."
