Military & Wartime Buildings
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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
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Bunkers
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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
Castles
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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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