The structure, which was briefly the headquarters of Carshalton Urban District Council before becoming a public library, is a Grade II listed building.

[5] The site they selected, on the west side of The Square, had formed part of the grounds of All Saints Church.

[7] It was designed by R. Frank Atkinson and W. Willis Gale in the Baroque Revival style, built in red and blue bricks with stone dressings at a cost of £2,500 and was completed in 1908.

[1] Within a few years the civic leaders decided that the building was too small and Lovelock persuaded the lord of the manor, Blake Taylor, to sell land including The Grove and the rest of the area around the upper ponds to the council.

[9] The old council offices in The Square were converted for use as a library and a museum and were re-opened by the former member of parliament, Sir Thomas Worsfold, in January 1931.