Fulton'S Gun Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1986. Gun shop.
Fulton'S Gun Shop
- WRENN ID
- south-spire-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1986
- Type
- Gun shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 95 NW PIRBRIGHT MARJORIE FOSTER'S ROAD BISLEY CAMP
SP/633 Fulton's Gun Shop
II
Gun shop, offices and club rooms, originally a headquarters building. c1880. Quadrangular one storey building built of bolted timber panels with a hipped corrugated iron roof projecting over a verandah supported on square wooden piers. Cast iron curved capitals to piers after the South Indian style adapted for the requirements of the Raj. 12 triple casement windows to front. 4 panelled doors. Courtyard has several blocked casement windows. Roof of king post construction. Included for historical interest as the original Headquarters building for the Queen's Competition, the premier rifle competition in the world. This building was erected every year on Wimbledon Common in July especially for the competition and dismantled soon afterwards until the following year. c1890 it was moved to Bisley and is the oldest unaltered building associated with the Queen's Competition which was inaugurated in 1860. The exact date of first erection is not known.
Listing NGR: SU9383457784
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