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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.
8.2.5 Castle House, Bridgewater 1851 - one of the earliest surviving examples of the use of Victorian prefabricated concrete and constructional post-tensioning.
Martello Towers We’re Napoleonic era, sea-facing tower forts built around the coast of Great Britain and Ireland. At least twenty have been converted to homes.

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A wartime bunker in Holland converted by architect B-ILD into a holiday home.
Hilldegarden, a converted bunker and air raid installation in Hamburg Germany
Anstruther Nuclear Bunker made to look like a farmhouse for security.
Swiss military bunker and anti-aircraft site designed to look like an alpine chalet.

8.2.4 A converted RAF bomb observation shelter turned into a home at Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire

The Solent Seaforts built between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight in the 19th century to repel attack from Napoleon III. They were nicknamed Palmerston’s Follies after Lord Palmerston, the prime minister who commissioned them.nCinverted by Mike Clare into two hotels and a home in the early 2000s.
Thorne Island, a Grade II listed Napoleonic sea fort off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, recently converted into a home.

Royal Navy Wireless Listening Station, Stockton-on-Tees, now converted into a house.
The Control Tower, Little Walden Airfield, Hadstock, Essex. A Grade II Listed conversin of a wartime airfield.
Former radar station at Balado Bridge, Kinross-shire, Scotland.

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+File:SolentSeaforts.jpeg|The Solent Seaforts built between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight in the 19th century to repel attack from Napoleon III. They were nicknamed Palmerston’s Follies after Lord Palmerston, the prime minister who commissioned them.nCinverted by Mike Clare into two hotels and a home in the early 2000s.
 File:ThorneIslandFort-Pembrokeshire.jpeg|Thorne Island, a Grade II listed Napoleonic sea fort off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, recently converted into a home.