Carshalton Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1974. Library. 5 related planning applications.
Carshalton Public Library
- WRENN ID
- other-newel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1974
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Carshalton Public Library, the Square, SM5 3BN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 280 644
- Coordinates
- 51.36473, -0.16215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carshalton Public Library, formerly Carshalton Council Offices, was opened in 1908 and designed by R Frank Atkinson and W Willis Gale. The building features a two-storey entrance front with five window bays and a deep hipped slate roof. It has a heavy paired modillion eaves cornice and is constructed of red and blue brick, with banding, long and short quoins, and a plinth. The windows are 2-light leaded casements with wood frames, and the ground floor windows are transomed. A pair of semi-circular stone steps leads up to the central doorway, which is made of stone and flanked by rusticated pilasters. The doorway features a large keystone and an open segmental pediment, with two stone scrolls rising above the pediment to frame the central first-floor window. The south-east elevation also has two storeys and three window bays. The northern part of the library includes the former Fire Station, which was also designed by Atkinson.
Local climate
Carshalton Public Library 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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- 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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