Territorial Army Centre built in 1934/5 in the grounds of Grove House, Grove Road, Northfleet. It consists of a close grouping of a drill hall, vehicle garages, other smaller structures and Grove House itself. The drill hall is a rectangular brick building 25 x 15 m, with a pitched roof on steel trusses. It displays a foundation stone from 1934 at its SE facing entrance. The garages are of similar construction, and are 20 x 12 m. with openings for vehicles along its north side. These buildings survive but not the early Victorian Grove House, which was the administrative headquarters and offices for the Territorial Army Centre. A number of units were stationed here, notably the Royal Engineers. During the Second World War it was the local headquarters of the Home Guard. The buildings were discontinued for Territorial Army purposes in the 1960s but continue in use for industrial purposes. Grove House was demolished at a date as yet to be established but also in the 1960s.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey : Within closed commercial premises
Tourism Potential : None
Condition : moderate
Date of visit : 14/04/07

Description from record TQ 67 SW 200:
Several detached buildings. Badly mutilated by later commercial development (1), site photographs (2,3). Drill Hall marked on the 4th ED OS map.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information.

RH Hiscock (Gravesend Historical Society) ISBN:0-9548137-3-1, 01/01/06, A Historical Walk through Gravesend and Northfleet (Bibliographic reference). SKE14067.

RH Hiscock (Gravesend Historical Society) ISBN:0-9548137-3-1, 01/01/06, A Historical Walk through Gravesend and Northfleet (Bibliographic reference). Ske14067.

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

<2> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10025.

<3> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10119.