An air-raid shelter dating to the Second World War is located on the south side of St Clare Drive, the access to High Trees. This structure is situated opposite the three detached properties shown on the 1939 revision of the 25 inch Ordnance Survey. It’s location suggests it was intended to serve as an airraid
shelter for nos. 1-3 St Clare Road, rather than just one dwelling.<1>
The entrance and the walls of the internal chamber shows the shelter was constructed not from prefabricated reinforced concrete panels but from concrete blocks, probably with reinforcing rods passed through their central voids, and that it has a rectangular cross-section. The roof is formed from concrete poured onto plank shuttering. The entrance has a crude door formed by a corrugated iron sheet, most likely a later addition. Below this are six steep steps leading to a short corridor with a left turn into the interior.

The air-raid shelter has survived virtually unchanged since its construction at the start of the Second World War and is being retained as a feature in the newly refurbished St Clare Drive, leading to the High Trees development.