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A standing building survey was carried out prior to demolition and redevelopment of the site. The complex consisted of three main studios together with a number of administration offices, engineering offices, workshops, a canteen and a multi-storey car park, all of 20th-century construction. In the SW corner of the site stands Weir Cottage, a late 19th-/early 20th-century Arts and Crafts style building which will be the only part of the studios to be retained in the new development. Teddington Studios had a long history, beginning in the early 20th century and the genesis of film making in Britain. The site was formerly occupied by Weir House, a large property and grounds, owned by a retired City stockbroker who became a film enthusiast and offered his large greenhouse to a film crew to use as a studio in bad weather. His extensive Thames-side grounds were also at their disposal and by 1912 film production had become a regular enterprise at the site. The first purpose built studio was constructed in 1915 and film production continued until the studio burnt down in 1929. The Warner Brothers Company began a long association with the site and between 1931 and 1936 they constructed new purpose built studio buildings. During a general decline in the industry the studios closed in 1951. However, the birth of independent television gave Teddington Studios a new life when ABC Television purchased the site in 1958. Production of television programmes continued at Teddington for the next six decades, until 2014.