Military & Wartime Buildings

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Castles, Keeps & Towers[edit]

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 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.
The WWII Maunsell Seaforts off the Kent coast in the Thames Estuary. Built to deter Luftwaffe raids and mine-laying. They were briefly turned into a home by artist Stephen Turner as part of an artistic exploration of solitude and creative contemplation, and the book contains over seventy colour photographs and the artists diary presented as a collection of 'seafort stories'. ,"Seafort"
Bull Sandfort, Humber Estuary A grade II listed sea fort constructed between 1915-1919 for naval sea defence during World War 1 and used in World War 2.

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 conversion of a wartime airfield.
The control tower at RAF Ibsley, a WWII fighter base, being converted into a home by the Landmark Trust.
Former radar station at Balado Bridge, Kinross-shire, Scotland.

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