** For sale by public auction on 18th April at 12:00 **Location & Description
The shelter is H-shaped in plan with wide entrance steps, latrine recesses by the entrance for ventilation, reinforced concrete walls and a vertical escape shaft at the far end. It is cut and cover and has an earth banked roof giving it splinter protection.
The land is situated off Redhill Road in Cobham, opposite the Silvermere golf course. Just north of junction 10 of the M25 and about 2 miles from Byfleet & New Haw Station and Weybridge Station on the Southern Railway.
The plot is approximately 2.1 of an acre with gated driveway access.
Accommodation
The air raid shelter at Foxwarren, or Silvermere, would have served one of the Vickers (Brooklands) dispersal depots sited nearby which were used for secret experimental work and known as the Foxwarren Experimental Department.
Barnes Wallis, the inventor associated with the Dam Busters raid, would have worked here on the Upkeep bouncing bomb and a number of prototype planes including the Windsor bomber and the Vickers 432 \"Tin Mossie\" an alloy version of the Mosquito.
The Vickers Experimental Department was relocated here after the heavy bombing of Brooklands in early September 1940.
Tenure
Freehold
Note
1. The site plan and photographs have been provided by the seller.
2. The seller advises that the gated entrance provides access to the plot.
3. The site measurements provided by the seller.
Auction Surveyor: Michael Mercer
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OFFERED VACANT