Explore Carshalton. Highlights include Honeywood Museum, standing in a distinctive location on the edge of Carshalton Ponds, an area rich in historic buildings. Originally a small structure of flint and chalk chequer work (c.1690), it was modified and extended leaving a rich legacy of period detail. Major extensions in 1898 and 1902 turned it into a substantial upper middle class house including a magnificent purpose-built billiards room.
Little Holland House is a modest detached Arts and Crafts style house self-built by Frank Dickinson in 1902-4. He and his wife Florence then made almost all the furniture, paintings, metalwork and other decorations giving the house a unique and very personal character. This was not the Arts and Crafts lifestyle bought from fashionable shops or expensively commissioned from designers: it is the work of an artist living the Arts and Crafts ideals and creating a unique home for him and his family. With the collection of decorative detail and furnishings remaining in the house today, Little Holland House is a hidden gem within the Carshalton Beeches area of the London Borough of Sutton. The opening of the house is supported by passionate and knowledgeable volunteers, who also support the upkeep of the garden. Visit and be inspired.
