Wimbledon Theatre is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. Theatre. 12 related planning applications.

Wimbledon Theatre

WRENN ID
narrow-spire-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merton
Constituency
Wimbledon MP: Mr Paul Kohler (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1972
Type
Theatre
Address
Wimbledon Theatre, the Broadway Sw19, SW19 1QG
OS grid reference
TQ 251 704
Coordinates
51.41916, -0.20133
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wimbledon Theatre is a theatre built in 1910 by architects Cecil Massey and Roy Young, possibly based on a design by Frank H Jones from 1908. The building is constructed of red brick and features a slate mansard roof, along with a copper dome atop an octagonal corner tower. It occupies an irregular corner site and has a four-stage tower with a Tuscan colonnade at the ground floor, which includes three triple square-headed entrances. The building has brick rusticated quoins and three-storey elevations on either side. The left side features a shop with canted bay windows above and a crowning modillion cornice. The tower windows are square-headed on the first and second stages, adorned with stone architraves and open segmental pediments, while the oval windows on the third floor are also topped with open pediments that merge to form a cornice. The interiors are elaborate, showcasing Baroque and Adamesque features, decorative plasterwork, and wrought iron balustrades in the galleries.

Local climate

Wimbledon Theatre 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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