Former Tool Store at Fosterdown Fort (Also Known As Canteen at Pilgrim Fort)
FORMER TOOL STORE AT FOSTERDOWN FORT (ALSO KNOWN AS CANTEEN AT PILGRIM FORT)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376083
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Tool Store at Fosterdown Fort (Also Known As Canteen at Pilgrim Fort)
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER TOOL STORE AT FOSTERDOWN FORT (ALSO KNOWN AS CANTEEN AT PILGRIM FORT)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376083
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Tool Store at Fosterdown Fort (Also Known As Canteen at Pilgrim Fort)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER TOOL STORE AT FOSTERDOWN FORT (ALSO KNOWN AS CANTEEN AT PILGRIM FORT)
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER TOOL STORE AT FOSTERDOWN FORT (ALSO KNOWN AS CANTEEN AT PILGRIM FORT)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caterham Valley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34428 53391
Details
TQ 35 SW CATERHAM AND WARLINGHAM TUPWOOD SCRUBBS LANE
303/5/10035
Former tool store at Fosterdown
Fort (also known as canteen at
13.0831998 Pilgrim Fort)
GV II
Tool store. Built in 1890s as part of Fosterdown Fort, one of 13 purpose-built Mobilisation Centres built to defend London. English bond brick with chamfered stone lintels and stooled cills to all openings; gabled slate roof with plain bargeboards. Single-story to rectangular plan. Original small-paned iron casements, those to rear in shallow openings and those to front flanking two double-door openings; that to left blocked with mid C20 window, that to right retaining original double doors with strap hinges. Early C20 extension to left of front with hipped roof and similar lintels and cills to metal casements and recessed doorway adjoining original building. Interior retains original iron roof trusses. Notable for its external completeness (the most complete after the example at Alderstead Fort) and historical importance within the context of the mobilisation centres built around London in the 1890s in response to fears of a French invasion. They represent an important shift from fortress-based to more mobile trench-based defensive systems, each fort acting as a depot for the storage of weapons and tools; in the event of mobilisation, the forts would be used as bases from which to defend their flanking areas.
Listing NGR: TQ3442853391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470071
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, V, Post Medieval Archaeology in Post Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 19, (1985), 105-49
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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