Catalogue description Office of Works and successors: Public Buildings, England and Wales: Registered Files

This series contains correspondence and papers (including a few plans) and registered files relating to government offices, courts of law and other public buildings in England and Wales. They cover the whole field of the acquisition and disposal of sites and properties; and the design, erection, and maintenance of the various buildings, mainly major developments in London, such as the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, numerous buildings in Whitehall, headquarters accommodation in London for various ministries, and the General Post Office at St Martin's Le Grand.

A few files relate to buildings outside London.

Most of the files were registered, mainly in the AJ, HEA and LRE series, although several other and some later file series are also represented, including AE, AH, AK, AP, CH, DCA and ESS. Some earlier papers are in unregistered folders. Some files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.

Related records of the Property Services Agency are in

Division within CM

Division within CM

For related plans and drawings, see WORK 30

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Controller Generals Division, 1967-1970

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, 1962-1967

Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, 1942-1943

Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, 1946-1962

Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, 1943-1945

Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, Works Department, 1832-1851

Office of Works, 1378-1832

Office of Works, 1851-1940

Office of Works, Architects and Surveyors Division, 1902-1914

Office of Works, Architects Division, 1914-1920

Office of Works, Directorate of Works, 1920-1940

Office of Works, Surveyors Division, 1901-1901

Property Services Agency, Directorate of Civil Accommodation, 1976-1990

from 2006 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

from 1934 Office of Works