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Pillbox, variant. Attached to side of building and camouflaged as an extension.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/10/27)
Pillbox camouflaged as building added to house. Two embrasures, one firing down The Street, the other along Old Road. Important structure that should be protected. Presently appears to be used as a boiler house.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/06/27)
Pillbox, disguised as a brick outbuilding to a large house in the centre of the town.
(Source: Photograph 1985)
Two pillboxes listed at this location. [Documentary references: Cassini 85912842 (serial no. 62) and 85942844].
(Source: Document 1940/12)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        Attached to the side of the Manor House, Calthorpe Green, Acle.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Acle, Norfolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TG 40153 10586
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Clay Tile, 
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Bird, Christopher (Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Acle nodal point - Defences of Acle category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. G82. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0005479
         

     (1) - photocopy of photograph attached to SRF  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005479

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999/11 Silent Sentinels: The story of Norfolk's fixed defences during the twentieth century

             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

              Pillbox Typology Part 3: Square and Rectangular Types

             1941/07/15 'A' Sector Defence Scheme

             1941/07/15 9 Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Defence Scheme

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940/12 

            Field Visit, On 1995/10/27 

            Field Visit, On 2001/06/27 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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