Local List agreed by Wandsworth by Libby Lawson, THG Conservation Officer
Posted June 2026
Local List agreed by Wandsworth
by Libby Lawson, THG Conservation Officer
Posted June 2026
Locally listed assets
Wandsworth Council holds a list of buildings that are of architectural or historical interest at a local level. You can see the borough’s locally listed assets for Wandsworth’s map of the locally listed buildings and heritage.
Locally listed assets are not statutorily listed but recognised for their significance to the history and character of the local environment. In Wandsworth parks and landscapes of local importance can also be included.
These assets are not subject to the same controls as statutory listed buildings, which are listed by the government, but their significance should be a material consideration in the planning process.
The earliest local list in the borough was produced in 1983 and contained around 500 entries, not many of which were in Tooting. Following the last major review in 2018 the Council invited individuals and amenity groups to enhance the borough’s Local List in an online public consultation that ended in February 2025.
Criteria for locally listed assets
The criteria Wandsworth Council adopted in 2016 are informed by Local Heritage Listing guidance provided by Historic England as below:
- Age: The age of an asset may be an important criterion and the age range can be adjusted to take into account distinctive local characteristics
- Rarity: Appropriate for all assets, as judged against local characteristics
- Aesthetic value: The intrinsic design value of an asset relating to local styles, materials or any other distinctive local characteristics
- Group value: Groupings of assets with a clear visual, design or historic relationship
- Evidential value: The significance of a local heritage asset of any kind may be enhanced by a significant contemporary or historic written record
- Historic value: The significance of a local heritage asset of any kind may be enhanced by a significant historical association of local or national note, including links to important local figures
- Archaeological interest: This may be an appropriate reason to designate a locally significant asset on the grounds of archaeological interest if the evidence base is sufficiently compelling and if a distinct area can be identified
- Designed landscapes: Relating to the interest attached to locally important designed landscapes, parks and gardens
- Landmark status: An asset with strong communal or historical associations, or because it has especially striking aesthetic value, may be singled out as a landmark within the local scene
- Social and communal value: Relating to places perceived as a source of local identity, distinctiveness, social interaction and coherence; often residing in intangible aspects of heritage contributing to the “collective memory” of a place. To include Heritage assets awarded a commemorative plaque.
Thank you to Tooting History Group members who suggested additions to Wandsworth’s Local List. Read about some of the 2025 nominations from the local area below:
Shop front, 114 Upper Tooting Road. Currently ‘Healthy Feet’
The most intact and charming Edwardian shop front in Tooting? Original tiled porch walls and floor, original timber window frames and doors. Some newer glazing but stained glass and painted glass fanlight remain.
Graveney School: 11-storey 160-room accommodation tower11 storey, 160 room, accommodation tower
A distinctive and interesting addition to the other listed and unlisted buildings on the Graveney School estate. An early successful example of precast concrete construction — built for speed and to avoid a planning enquiry — so it does not exceed 100 ft. Weathering has enhanced the bold profiles of the concrete panels. The tower windows have since been replaced, and the lower structures at the base have been rebuilt, but it retains freshness and appeal.
Graveney School: dining facilities, atrium and assembly hall
Innovative 1965 glass and steel design by Trevor Danatt, part of the former Furzedown College extension commission. Distinctive arrow slit windows on the ground floor.
Danatt was involved with the Royal Festival Hall, detailing staircases and glazed screens of the foyers. He also designed additions to what was Rosa Bassett School (now Graveney School) including the gymnasium.
Tooting Junction Baptist Church, 158 Longley Road
The church has a rich history and has served the community since its establishment in the 1900s. It is brick-built in modern style with arched porch and ‘1937’ in Roman numerals on the parapet.
The church has occupied three locations on Longley Road. The first was a tin tabernacle and Sunday school building on the south side of Longley Road. This was followed by a red-brick church building on the corner of Longley Road and Bickersteth Road. The third, the current church, was built on the site of the previous church hall, which was then next to the former Tooting Junction railway station.
Pilgrims Union Pentecostal Church of God, Aldis Street. Formerly Aldis Street Mission.
Attractive and modest brick chapel building with red-brick banding and quoin effects, simple diaper work on main gable-fronted elevation, lancet shaped entrance doors to each side with lancet windows above. Simple interior with foundation stone on wall. Built in the 1870s. Previously known as Church House and Aldis Street Chapel. Thought to have been sold in 1970s.
Large decorative wrought-iron bracket for a shop sign, 215 Tooting High Street
Decorative historic wrought-iron bracket for a shop sign on the site of a former off licence, The Free House, which opened in 1906. It belonged to Jonathan Cusden, a significant local trader as well as a member of the old Tooting vestry, and one of the first members of Wandsworth Borough Council.
The bracket is a reminder of early Edwardian retail, commerce and business when Tooting was booming with the arrival of the tram in 1903, housebuilding etc.
Cusden’s son Harry was a founding member of the Balham and Tooting Traders Association and opened shops in nearby Longley Road and across Tooting.
Stink pipe on Lessingham Avenue, just off Upper Tooting Road
There are many stink pipes across Tooting and the borough. This is a particularly large example.
Front garden of 36 Montana Road
A distinctive, unique walled front garden with walls, piers and coping built in red engineering bricks — some bull-nosed — and terracotta pier caps.
St Augustine’s Church, Broadwater Road
A vibrant and welcoming community church. Built 1929-31. Architect: H P Burke Downing.
The new ecclesiastical parish of Tooting St Augustine was created in 1926 from parts of the Ancient Parish of Tooting St Nicholas.
An ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish of Upper Tooting Holy Trinity, which is a local government unit in England, and was itself created from part of the Ancient Parish of Streatham St Leonard in 1855.
Ghost sign at 86 Mitcham Road
A quirky addition to the street scene. Dallas Star Tested Brand Instruments advertisement.
A ‘privilege’ advert for a manufacturer selling at the retail outlet of Hughes and Co. music shop at no.86 Mitcham Rd. from c.1920 to 1940s.
48A Mitcham Road, formerly known as Tooting Tram and Social and the Tramshed
Accessed via a small passage set back from Mitcham Road, and nestled on its south and west elevations by the later built Granada cinema, this is an early Edwardian era warehouse building. Industrial brick-built shed with glazed brick interior. Vast central space with a mezzanine gallery, most recently a performance venue and bar.
Known as a tram shed but without a turning circle or sufficient space for one. Closed 30 October 2025. Former Antic-operated public house.
We are also pleased to support the following nominations already entered by others on the Commonplace consultation map:
- Roe Bridge signage
- Race track mural/ghost sign: dog track at Batford Road
- Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Road: historic park and garden with chapel and lodges, dating from 1854