Premises of South East Electricity Board is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1974. Garden temple, orangery.
Premises of South East Electricity Board
- WRENN ID
- small-keystone-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1974
- Type
- Garden temple, orangery
- Address
- Premises of South East Electricity Board, the Square
- OS grid reference
- TQ 280 644
- Coordinates
- 51.36456, -0.16156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises of the South Eastern Electricity Board, located on the east side of The Square in Carshalton, date from the early to mid 18th century. This building is thought to have been a garden temple or orangery associated with Carshalton House, possibly inspired by a design from the architect Leoni. A more elaborate design by Leoni for a greenhouse in the Ionic order at Carshalton House is featured in "some designs for Buildings both Publick and Private," published around 1729.
The building is a single storey constructed of Roman cement, featuring three blocked windows. It has a central Doric tetrastyle portico with a pediment and back pilasters, along with a blocked tympanum. The eaves cornice is made of wood, and the roof is slate, hipped at the east end. Doric angle piers are present at both ends of the elevation.
Local climate
Premises of South East Electricity Board 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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