01/06/2001 House, the front bedroom of which was fortified as a machine-gun post. The house was also used as a wardens post (no. 29). The front bedroom and the room below it were requisitioned in 1940. The ground floor room was strongly reinforced with supports for the machine-gun post in the bedroom, which consisted of a concrete wall built behind the bay windows, with gaps for firing positions.
The bay windows were left in position and the curtains left up to disguise the existence of the post. The post was never regularly manned. (The recorder spoke with the owners of the house, who said the fortified walls had been demolished after the war and the rooms restored. The fortified walls covered the front bay window and also the two small windows each side of the side chimney.
There were also slots for anti-tank steel rails in the road outside). (The recorder learnt about this site from an exhibition on Second World War defences at Banstead Library).