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File:CastleDinton-Buckinghamshire.jpg|Originally a folly built in 1769, Castle Dinton in Buckinghamshire was a GradeII* ruin till converted by Spanish Architect Fernandez. It appeared on Grand Designs in 2018. | File:CastleDinton-Buckinghamshire.jpg|Originally a folly built in 1769, Castle Dinton in Buckinghamshire was a GradeII* ruin till converted by Spanish Architect Fernandez. It appeared on Grand Designs in 2018. | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 6 September 2020
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Castles, Keeps & Towers
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Originally a folly built in 1769, Castle Dinton in Buckinghamshire was a GradeII* ruin till converted by Spanish Architect Fernandez. It appeared on Grand Designs in 2018.
Temporary Huts
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8.2.1 A Nissen Hut based house at Ashdown Camp, Evesham
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8.2.2 A Quonset Hut based house in Australia
Click here for the full page entry for Nissen Huts.
Bunkers
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A wartime bunker in Holland converted by architect B-ILD into a holiday home.
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Hilldegarden, a converted bunker and air raid installation in Hamburg Germany
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Anstruther Nuclear Bunker made to look like a farmhouse for security.
Bomb Shelters
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8.2.4 A converted RAF bomb observation shelter turned into a home at Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire
Towers
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8.2.5 Castle House, Bridgewater 1851 - one of the earliest surviving examples of the use of Victorian prefabricated concrete and constructional post-tensioning.
Other Military Conversions
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Royal Navy Wireless Listening Station, Stockton-on-Tees, now converted into a house.
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The Control Tower, Little Walden Airfield, Hadstock, Essex. A Grade II Listed conversin of a wartime airfield.
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Former radar station at Balado Bridge, Kinross-shire, Scotland.
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