Fulton'S Gun Shop

Fulton's Gun Shop is a gun shop, offices, and club rooms that originally served as a headquarters building, constructed around 1880. It is a quadrangular, one-storey structure made of bolted timber panels, featuring a hipped corrugated iron roof that extends over a verandah supported by square wooden piers. The piers have cast iron curved capitals designed in the South Indian style, adapted for the needs of the Raj. The front of the building has twelve triple casement windows and four panelled doors. The courtyard contains several blocked casement windows, and the roof is of king post construction. This building is historically significant as it was the original headquarters for the Queen's Competition, the premier rifle competition in the world. It was erected annually on Wimbledon Common in July specifically for the competition and dismantled shortly after until the next year. Around 1890, it was relocated to Bisley and is now the oldest unaltered building associated with the Queen's Competition, which began in 1860. The exact date of its initial construction is not known.