Bisley Hut
THE BISLEY SHOOTING PAVILION (‘THE BISLEY HUT’)
The Honourable Artillery Company’s shooting pavilion or clubhouse at Bisley Camp
near Brookwood in Surrey is familiarly known to members of the Company as ‘The
Bisley Hut’. The pavilion was built in 1928 on land leased from the National
Rifle Association. Replacing a far less grand building that had been purchased
by the HAC in 1904, it was designed by the architect Burrough De Carle Jackson
(1889-1968), who had served with the Company during the First World War. The
half-timbered Tudor style of the pavilion, with its tiled roof and leaded windows,
is reminiscent of the age when the Company received its Royal Charter from King
Henry VIII (in 1537).
The HAC pavilion is considered by many to be one of the finest buildings at Bisley
Camp and was handed back to the National Rifle Association in 2011.
Much of Bisley Camp is formally designated a conservation area because it contains
many distinctive wooden Victorian and Edwardian clubhouses, as well as heathland
that supports a number of rare plants and animals.