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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 SE 1243
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Type 28A anti-tank pillbox, Abbots Lodge House, Hoo St Werburgh

Summary

Good condition type 28A pillbox. Forming part of Hoo stop line (GHQ line) anti invasion defences 1940. Facing S.

Summary from record TQ 77 SE 149:

A World War II anti tank Blockhouse dating from 1940. Of rectangular form, probably a type 28 for three and six pound guns.

Grid Reference:TQ 7902 7276
Map Sheet:TQ77SE
Parish:HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • PILLBOX (Modern - 1940 AD? to 1945 AD?)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1472640: Type 28 Second World War pillbox in the garden of Abbots Court Lodge, Hoo St Werburgh

Full description

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Standard concrete construction anti-tank pillbox. No interior access.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : Possible heritage trail
Condition : good
Date of visit : 11/05/06

Description from record TQ 77 SE 149:
rectangular adapted type 28. Probable 3 pr or 6 pr. (1)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula, part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The report states: "Second World War rectangular brick-shuttered, adapted, type 28, anti-tank gun emplacement with double embrasures immediately behind Abbots Lodge House. Recorded on 1942 and 2007 aerial photographs. Seen on a field visit in 2014 reused as a shed. Blast wall by the entrance removed. (2)

Designated as a Listed Building in 2020 (3)


MMRG, 11/05/06, Type 28 A Pill Box off Stoke Road Hoo (Photograph). SKE14522.

MMRG, 11/05/06, Type 28 A Pill Box off Stoke Road Hoo (Photograph). Ske14522.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary. (Collection). SKE14306.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary. (Collection). Ske14306.

<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<2> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project: Second World War Stop Line: Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes. Research Report 9-2014. (Bibliographic reference). SKE31599.

<3> Historic England, National Heritage List for England (Index). SKE29372.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Collection: 11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. 18/01/41. War diary..
---Photograph: MMRG. 11/05/06. Type 28 A Pill Box off Stoke Road Hoo.
<1>Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.
<2>Bibliographic reference: historic england. 2014. Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project: Second World War Stop Line: Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes. Research Report 9-2014..
<3>Index: Historic England. National Heritage List for England.

Related records

TQ 77 SE 1322Part of: Second World War Stop Line: Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes, Hoo Peninsula, Kent (Monument)