{"id":20362,"date":"2022-11-06T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/?page_id=20362"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:09:45","slug":"st-leonards-court-air-raid-shelter-london","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/sites\/deep-shelters-air-raid-shelters\/st-leonards-court-air-raid-shelter-london","title":{"rendered":"St Leonard’s Court Air Raid Shelter, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare surviving private air raid shelter location in the front garden of St Leonards Court, East Sheen.\u00a0The shelter was designed to hold 48 people<\/sup>\u00a0and, according to\u00a0Habitats & Heritage, was built in 1938 and extended in 1941.<\/sup> It has four rooms, two for men and two for women and are separated by a central spine corridor. The shelter has a well preserved\u00a0 interior with some original fittings. In 2007\u00a0Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council\u00a0rejected a\u00a0planning application, which had been opposed by local residents and\u00a0councillors,<\/sup> to convert the shelter into two self-contained apartments. The Council’s decision was upheld in 2008 on appeal. A plan of the shelter can be seen below:<\/sup><\/p>\n

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In 2010 Historic England listed the shelter at Grade II<\/sup><\/sup> and since then has identified it as a building at risk, in poor condition; work is being undertaken by Habitats & Heritage to stabilise and preserve the shelter.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n