Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1973. A Victorian Municipal buildings. 5 related planning applications.
Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria
- WRENN ID
- proud-gutter-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West MP: Sarah Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1973
- Type
- Municipal buildings
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria, Katharine Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 324 653
- Coordinates
- 51.37214, -0.09904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Municipal Buildings, constructed between 1892 and 1896 by Charles Henman Jnr, consist of a clock tower, a public library, and a Corn Exchange, all designed in red brick with stone ornamentation and topped with a slate roof. The complex features buildings of varying sizes. The town hall, which has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, is nine bays wide facing Katharine Street and five bays wide facing Fell Street, with a tall clock tower on the southwest corner. Adjacent to the town hall is the library, which has one storey, an attic, and a basement, characterized by a steeply pitched roof and a central turret. To the northwest is the Corn Exchange, a three-storey structure with four bays and a two-bay loggia above part of the external staircase. In front of both the town hall and the library is a stone area balustrade that includes a war memorial located before the western end of the town hall and a bronze statue of Queen Victoria positioned opposite the central bay of the library.
Local climate
Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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