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Catalogue description The Crown Estate Office and predecessors: Crown Estate Surveyor's Branch: Numbered Files
| Reference: | CRES 57 |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Crown Estate Office and predecessors: Crown Estate Surveyor's Branch: Numbered Files |
| Description: |
Registered files of the Crown Estate Surveyor's branch, giving structural and architectural information about properties on the Crown estate (mostly in London). In particular they detail the redevelopment of the Millbank Estate following the mass expiry of 99 year leases in the 1950s and 1960s, and the restoration of the Regents Park Terraces. For information on the appraisal and selection decisions applied to records in this series, see Operational Selection Policy OSP 2, The Crown Estate, 1975-1985. |
| Date: | 1919-1988 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Crown Lands, Crown Estate Surveyors Branch, 1940-1956 The Crown Estate, Crown Estate Surveyors Branch, 1956-1989 |
| Physical description: | 469 file(s) |
| Physical condition: | Most pieces in this series contain plans, maps or architectural drawings. |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1940, the Commissioners of Crown Lands appointed a surveyor to act on their behalf at the head of an independent branch within the Commission. The Crown Estate Surveyor (sometimes Crown Surveyor) and his staff undertook structural and architectural surveys of properties on the Crown estate and advised other branches of the office in a professional capacity. Based in London, their work was concentrated on the London estate, and in the home counties. On estates more distant than London, local surveyors were used under contract as required. The surveyor and his branch were absorbed into the London and Urban Estates Branch in April 1989, where their work continued. |
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