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Latitude: 51.2638 / 51°15'49"N
Longitude: -0.0746 / 0°4'28"W
OS Eastings: 534428
OS Northings: 153391
OS Grid: TQ344533
Mapcode National: GBR KK3.RY5
Mapcode Global: VHGS5.NHDH
Plus Code: 9C3X7W7G+G4
Entry Name: Former Tool Store at Fosterdown Fort (Also Known As Canteen at Pilgrim Fort)
Listing Date: 13 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376083
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470071
ID on this website: 101376083
Location: Tandridge, Surrey, CR3
County: Surrey
District: Tandridge
Civil Parish: Caterham Valley
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey
Church of England Parish: Godstone and Blindley Heath
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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
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