The Guildhall is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1983. Civic building. 44 related planning applications.
The Guildhall
- WRENN ID
- noble-vault-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Thames
- Constituency
- Kingston and Surbiton MP: Ed Davey (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1983
- Type
- Civic building
- Address
- The Guildhall, High Street, KT1 1EU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 179 690
- Coordinates
- 51.40836, -0.30605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guildhall is a neo-Georgian red brick building dating to 1934-5, designed by Maurice Webb. It has Portland stone dressings and a tiled roof. The building follows a semi-circular plan and rises three storeys, featuring square-headed windows with twelve panes. A horizontally rusticated stone base is present, as is a stone band above the first floor. A massive square tower dominates the centre of the semi-circular elevation, topped with a low octagonal spire and fluted corner pinnacles. The main entrance is centrally positioned within the base of the tower. Above the entrance is a two-storey, round-headed window set within an open pedimented stone niche supported by simplified Corinthian columns rising from a corbelled balcony. Pictorial references to the Thames are displayed on the keystone within the niche, the corbels, capitals, and on the iron gates. The crest of Kingston is positioned further up the tower. The circular entrance hall is lined with marble. A central staircase is present, featuring original opaque glass semi-spherical lamps. Original wall and hanging lights, also of opaque glass with bronze trimming, are found in the southwest area and the council chamber.
Local climate
The Guildhall 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 44 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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