Carshalton Council Offices

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Carshalton Council Offices
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Carshalton Council Offices
LocationThe Square, Carshalton
Coordinates 51°21′53″N0°09′44″W / 51.3647°N 0.1622°W / 51.3647; -0.1622 Coordinates: 51°21′53″N0°09′44″W / 51.3647°N 0.1622°W / 51.3647; -0.1622
Built1908
Architect R. Frank Atkinson and W. Willis Gale
Architectural style(s) Baroque Revival style
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameCarshalton Public Library
Designated1 March 1974
Reference no.1300429
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The Carshalton Council Offices is a former municipal building on The Square, Carshalton, London. The structure, which was briefly the headquarters of Carshalton Urban District Council before becoming a public library, is a Grade II listed building. [1]

History

Following a significant increase in population, largely associated with the growing importance of the area as a residential suburb of London, the area became an urban district in 1894. [2] [3] The new urban district council initially rented premises in the High Street. [4] In the early 20th century, civic officials, led by the clerk to the council, Charles Lovelock, launched an initiative to raise funds for purpose-built council offices. [5] The site they selected, on the west side of The Square, had formed part of the grounds of All Saints Church. [6]

The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the chairman of the council, Councillor C. W. Edwards, on 21 December 1906. [7] It was designed by R. Frank Atkinson and W. Willis Gale in the Baroque Revival style, built in red and blue bricks with stone dressings at a cost of £2,500 and was completed in 1908. [1] [8] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto The Square; the central section bay featured a doorway flanked by banded pilasters supporting an entablature, which was broken by a large keystone, and an open segmental pediment. There was a casement window flanked by stone scrolls on the first floor. The other bays were fenestrated by cross-windows on the ground floor and by casement windows on the first floor. At roof level, there was a modillioned cornice. [1]

Within a few years the civic leaders decided that the building was too small and Lovelock persuaded the lord of the manor, Blake Taylor, to sell land including The Grove and the rest of the area around the upper ponds to the council. [5] By the mid-1920s, the council had relocated its offices to The Grove. [9] The old council offices in The Square were converted for use as a library and a museum and were re-opened by the former member of parliament, Sir Thomas Worsfold, in January 1931. [10] The museum failed to attract sufficient visitors and the collection was put into storage two years later. [10] However, the building continued to serve the people of Carshalton as a public library until December 2012 when the library service relocated to the Westcroft Centre. [11] The building then became a nursery but that also closed in 2020. [12] [13]

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References

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  2. ↑ Malden, H. E. (1912). "'Parishes: Carshalton', in A History of the County of Surrey". London: British History Online. pp. 178–188. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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  4. ↑ The Sanitary Record and Journal of Sanitary and Municipal Engineering. Vol. 27. Sanitary Publishing Company. 1896. p. 290.
  5. 1 2 Palmier, Beryl (2010). "A History of the Beddington, Carshalton & Wallington Archaeological Society" (PDF). Carshalton & District History & Archaeology Society. p. 7. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Ordnance Survey Map". 1900. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  7. ↑ Foundation stone on the front elevation of the building.
  8. ↑ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). London 2: South (Buildings of England Series). Yale University Press. p. 646. ISBN   978-0300096514.
  9. ↑ The Yearbook of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. 1926. p. 324. Beddington, Carshalton & Wallington Archaeological Society, Council Offices, The Grove, Carshalton
  10. 1 2 Palmier 2010, p. 23
  11. ↑ "New and refurbished libraries by authority". Public Libraries News. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  12. ↑ "Carshalton Village Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan" (PDF). London Borough of Sutton. 1 October 2019. p. 28. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  13. ↑ "Ofsted takes action against Carshalton day nursery". Sutton and Croydon Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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