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.