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Unique Property Bulletin 23 August 2015

This Edition’s Unique Property Feature:-

London Enigma

Skyfall James Bond Trinity Square Location EON Productions

Daniel Craig Standing On Your London Rooftop

007 Looking At Other’s Iconic London Landmark’s Coming Up For Sale

For decades we have been listing unusual property in London, but no matter whether it is property-boom time, or property-bust, London real-estate sales keep on rolling along, inexorably, like Paul Robeson’s iconic “Old Man River”.

That presents us with a London enigma which causes many folk a problem. For our own small efforts, by the time we feature a capital property, maybe only a few days pass – 7 to 10 maximum – and the thing is often “under offer”. Thereby rendering redundant our efforts to keep a decent presence of unique properties from London featured in the Bulletin.

However we have a cunning plan to remedy this…

Feature details at the foot of this page.

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Thinking Inside The Box

Design Develop Project Gregory
Shipping Container Homes Made Economically Neutral
Photo Courtesy of DesignDevelop: Project Gregory
Further Details Click Here

An email landed in our inbox with some information from a Bulletin reader about converted shipping-containers as a place to live. This is briefly shared here at this segment. We are intending to explore shipping-container life in greater detail with a dedicated feature article towards the end of this year. However, for now we include a few interesting snippets surrounding what is, by many accounts, a very economic way to live. For some folk, this is actually a lifeline with other avenues for a roof over the head exhausted. For some, ship-container-living is a deliberate choice of minimalism. For others who follow the philosophy of enough, similar to the Good Life – where enjoyment of being is almost at a Zen like state or existence.

Enter the shipping-container. At its most basic, hardly the most elegant of structures. Though plentiful in the extreme, and available almost anywhere. With second hand prices starting at £500 or $1,000 (for the basic container shell). Importantly for some locations, by definition, the shipping container can be transported to almost anywhere on the planet.

So as a place to consider living, when needs must, or lifestyle desire implores, then we have a very interesting potential abode to study…

Shipping Container Home Made Elegant
Shipping Container Homes Made Elegant
Further Details Click Here

The topic is further discussed by Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart at their Boxhouse Website and also an interesting video presentation…

 

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BT Repeater Station & Planning???

Telephone Repeater Station off the A64 at Steeton, near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, LS24 8EE
Telephone Repeater Station, Near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire

Each Unique Property Bulletin starts an edition by listing at the economical end of the house spectrum and work upwards; sometimes to the near-astronomical! So for this Bulletin, after a £500 starting price shipping container conversion idea, we gently ease into the unusual property arena with a former telephone repeater station. Also within the affordable home ballpark.

This detached former telecoms structure occupies a piece of land around a quarter of an acre. Located on the main A64 York to Leeds Road near Catterton. Essentially a single storey brick building with an approximate net internal floor area of 95m2 (1,022 sq.ft).

For Bulletin readers, we need to highlight that a planning application for domestic use was previously refused, and anyone considering this building should be very knowledgeable in planning permission negotiations, or game-on to start a steep learning experience. To help start the process, here we have the confirmation and source of the initial blockage…

2014/0121/OUT – 8/76/13/PA – Outline application with all matters reserved for demolition of existing repeater station and erection of 2 No 4 bedroom detached dwellings at Tadcaster Telephone Repeater Station – REFUSED

Source: Click Here – Selby Council Planning Dept

Here’s the thing, it might be worthwhile devoting a few moments of lateral-thought time on how planning permission to use this former BT building as a residential unit might be obtained? Ingenious ways to persuade planning officials as to how empty buildings can be brought back to useful and viable life are there. It just takes a little time to cogitate and come up with a viable proposal.

We have our own ideas and will pop them into a feature article in due course. If you have any views on overcoming planning permission hurdles that might help everyone who partakes in the Bulletin, please feel free to

Location: Telephone Repeater Station off the A64 at Steeton, near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, LS24 8EE

Guide: £30,000

Further Details: Click Here

Contact: Eddisons Auction: 0113 243 0101 

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Hot Bargain

Former Fire Station, Knowsley Lane, Knowsley, Liverpool, Merseyside, L34 9EE

Former Fire Station, Knowsley Lane, Knowsley, Liverpool

The price is definitely low for this former fire station, but by the looks of what is left, there is a mountain of work. Whatever else, if you find a fireman’s pole to slide down in this pile of bricks, maybe give that a miss, for it’ll be that rusty you would get friction burns in all the wrong places.

This lot was previously offered for sale by auction on 24/02/2011 at a guide of £12,500 NOW BACK UP FOR SALE Click Here For OLD SOLD Details.

Accommodation :-

Room One: 33.03 sq m (356 sq ft)
Room Two: 32.74 sq m (353 sq ft)
Room Three: 8.93 sq m (96 sq ft)
Room Four: 3.50 sq m (38 sq ft)

Outside: Woodland surrounds the property and Flukers Book runs to the south of the land.

Site Area: Approximately 280.55 square metres (3,024 square feet).

Location: Former Fire Station, Knowsley Lane, Knowsley, Liverpool, Merseyside, L34 9EE

Guide: £10,000

Further Details: Click Here

Contact: Roy Pugh Auctioneers Tel: 0844 2 722444

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Devonian Railway Station Buildings

Converted Porters Office Plus Ticketing Hall For Sale

Unique Lifestyle & Useful Income Combined

Former Tavistock North Railway Station Photo By Nigel Cox

Old Tavistock Railway Station, Quant Park, Tavistock, Devon

Photograph Courtesy of Mr Nigel Cox

* Luxury holiday cottages.
* Stunning and unique setting in old Tavistock Railway Station.
* Impressive Grade II Listed properties.
* Sympathetically converted, of immense charm and character.
* 2 superior holiday cottages presented to exceptional standard throughout.
* Private gated grounds with parking, gardens and lovely views.
* Rental income approximately: £60,000 p.a.
* Award winning with excellent occupancy levels.
* Full residential concern, viewing strongly recommended.

Tavistock (North) Railway Station

Old Tavistock Railway Station, Quant Park, Tavistock, Devon

For sale are two luxury holiday cottages. We understand that residential use is allowed on either, so buyers have the option to keep both as unique buy-to-let properties, or for an interesting lifestyle, live in one and let the other out. Producing a useful income and also a very nice place to live.

Tavistock (North) Railway Station 2

Old Tavistock Railway Station, Quant Park, Tavistock, Devon

Guide: £540,000

Alternatively: Porter’s Office House £275,000 SAV

Separately: Ticketing Hall Conversion £265,000 SAV

Location: Old Tavistock Railway Station, Quant Park, Tavistock, Devon, PL16 0JQ

Further Details: Click Here

Owner’s Website: Click Here

Virtual Tour: Click Here Ohhh jings that 3D picture thingy fair makes you go cross-eyed and dizzy. Very good idea though – the pictures, not ending up like a lioness from Daktari

Contact: Huntley & Partners Tel: 01752 20-60-20

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Berkshire Church

St John The Evangelist, Church Road Main

St John The Evangelist, Church Road, Reading, Berkshire

An attractive ecclesiastical building dating from 1892 suitable for a range of alternative uses but probably conversion residential the most suitable – all subject to planning.

St John The Evangelist, Church Road 1

Interior: St John The Evangelist, Church Road, Reading, Berkshire

Located in the middle of the peaceful hamlet of Farley Hill. Offers invited subject to planning.

Location: St John The Evangelist, Church Road, Farley Hill, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 1TS

Guide: Offers in the region of £300,000 Sorry this former church is now sold. We will put on our property sleuthing gumboots and see if it is possible to rustle up a similar property that hasn’t succumbed to the offer stage. Will list any new candidate properties for substitution here, or inclusion in the Unique Property Bulletin due 6th September 2015.

Archived Details: Click Here

Contact – 01865 733300 

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Old Engine House, Cornwall

The Old Engine House, Wheal Rose, Scorrier, Cornwall 1

The Old Engine House, Wheal Rose, Scorrier, Cornwall

Almost exactly 3 years ago we listed this Cornish engine house conversion – Click Here. The guide back then was £750,000. Now, the property has re-emerged with a lower price tag at – £699,000. It looks like the fresh sale relaunch at £699,000 is for the engine house plus two holiday cottages. Whilst the £399,000 price tag is for just the engine house tower.

The Old Engine House, Wheal Rose, Scorrier, Cornwall 3

Balcony Views – The Old Engine House, Wheal Rose, Cornwall

Either way, this is a classic example of a former Cornish Tin Mine building. The old Engine House has been restored to it’s original glory, whilst being sympathetically converted to a two bedroom home. It is a Grade II Listed building and is interesting to see what the place was like BEFORE renovation…

The Old Engine House, Wheal Rose, Scorrier, Cornwall 2

The Old Engine House Before/During Renovations

All set in landscaped grounds. An interesting extra piece of information can be found at …

http://www.enginehousecottages.co.uk/

http://www.selfcatering-directory.co.uk/uploads/estate/selfcatering/self-catering-956.htm

Location: The Old Engine House & Miners Cottage, Wheal Rose, Scorrier, Cornwall, TR16 5DE.

Guide – Whole 3 Building Compound: £699,000

Further Details – 3 Buildings: Click Here

Or…

Guide – Just The Engine House: £399,000

Further Details – Engine House: Click Here

Contact Humberts Tel: 01823 218388. Please can you let the estate agency know you spotted the details via Unique Property Bulletin. Thank you.

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Tanera Mor Island News

Tanera Mòr Island Map

Tanera Mòr Island Map

The Tanera Mòr Island syndicate is making decent progress. If you haven’t already looked at the detail…

Tanera Mòr Island – House Details: Click Here

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Tanera Mòr Island Map  – Holiday Cottages For Sale

Photo Courtesy of Chris S.

Tanera Mòr Farmhouse

Tanera Mòr Island Holiday Cottage: Photo Above – The Farmhouse For Sale

Tanera Mòr Farmhouse MAIN

Tanera Mòr Island Holiday Cottage: Photo Above – The Farmhouse For Sale

Tanera Mòr Old Schoolhouse 2

Tanera Mòr Island Holiday Cottage: Photo Above – The Schoolhouse For Sale

Tanera Mòr Island Fuchsia Cottage

Tanera Mòr Island Holiday Cottage: Photo Above – Fuchsia Cottage For Sale

Island Tanera 3a

Tanera Mòr Island

Picturesque Landing: Blues, Greens, Turquoises & Sandy Beaches Beyond

Though from past experience, there is a healthy demand for Tanera Mòr Island holiday cottages. Please note, the undernoted occupancy levels still have bookings pending that had not been entered on the website, so the levels are slightly under-reported. The links do give an indication for guidance:-

Click Here To Read News About Tanera Mor Island

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Grand Toll House

Toll House, Blisworth Arm, Nr. Blisworth, Northamptonshire, NN7

Old Toll House, Blisworth Arm, Northamptonshire, Grand Union Canal

This idyllic canalside former toll house dates from circa 1800 and extends to in excess of 2,150 sq. ft. with accommodation including an entrance porch, hall, three reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, three double bedrooms with an en suite shower room to the master bedroom, and a family bathroom. There is a courtyard garden to the rear as well as a double garage, off street parking and a brick store.

Old Toll House has a walled courtyard garden to the rear with an area of lawn and a paved seating area. There is a brick store and a double garage with gravelled parking area. There is a garden to the front of the property enclosed by a low brick wall with pillars and a hand gate to the grassed canalside bank.

We even have a taste of life at 4 miles per hour, with the old toll house appearing at around 7 minutes into this video….

Click On The Photo Above To Watch The Video: Toll House 7 Minutes Into Clip

Location: Old Toll House, Blisworth Arm, Nr. Blisworth, Northamptonshire, NN7 3FG

Guide: £535,000

Further Details: Click Here

Contact: 01327 350 022

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Newport Church Conversion

Ty Eglwys MAIN

Ty Eglwys, Church Lane, Coedkernew, Newport, Gwent

A sympathetically converted 19th century church.

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Ty Eglwys, Church Lane, Coedkernew, Newport, Gwent

Now a detached family home with four bedrooms, the property retains many original features throughout including lancet windows, exposed corbels, stone arches, exposed beams, stone fireplaces and stone tiled floors to name but a few. For a very nice selection of photographs, please click on the link below.

Guide: £675,000

Location: Ty Eglwys, Church Lane, Coedkernew, Newport, Gwent, NP10 8TU

Further Details: Click Here

Contact: 029 20 368930

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Life After Nuclear Doom

From Armageddon Bunker To Elegant Glass House

BEFORE CONVERSION

South East London Regional War Rooms, Chislehurst - Photo By Nick Catford Subbrit org uk

South East London Regional War Rooms, Chiselhurst

In 1951 at the growing Cold War and prospect of nuclear Armageddon, the UK government started to build secret bunkers. The larger buildings were those from whence officials could run the country in the event of a nuclear attack.

AFTER CONVERSION

The Glass House, Kemnal Road

The Glasshouse, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst

The before and after photographs above show the South East London Regional War Rooms. These give a good idea of what near derelict government structures looked like before some imagination, dedication, and a whole heap of hard work is sprinkled upon them. Even if this particular unique building conversion is not for you, at least it gives a good idea what can be done. If this sort of project light’s your fire, maybe check out the before and after websites linked below.

BEFORE CONVERSION

South East London Regional War Room Photo By Nick Catford

South East London Regional War Rooms, Chiselhurst

Photograph Courtesy of Mr Nick Catford

The ugly nuclear duck has turned into a post-Cold War elegant swan…

AFTER CONVERSION

The Glass House, Kemnal Road 1

The Glasshouse, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst

To see the story of what this amazing conversion was, and how it looked prior to major overhaul, check out the “BEFORE” website…

Click Here For Subterranea Britannica Kemnal Bunker Background

From deep and secret excavations and thick concrete walls contained in the wooded grounds of Kemnal Road arose a new place to call home. It may have had the boom factor when originally built.

Fortunately this has converted into the wow factor….

The Glass House, Kemnal Road 4

The Glasshouse, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst

The “AFTER” website article has lots of lovely pictures of this amazing conversion…

Lots of Lovely Photographs – Click Here

Guide: £3,500,000. Though research on possible price discount may prove fruitful as other websites have this property listed at £3,250,000 [ Click Here ]

Location: The Glasshouse, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6LY

Further Details: Click Here and Click Here

Contact: 020 8325 8000

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Unique Property Competition

Current Competition…

For July + August 2015, the Unique Property Bulletin competition prize is a modest:-

Twenty Pound Note Prize

Please Name The Location of This Unique Building…

July & August 2015 Competition

The winner is the first drawn from our Competition Box on 31st August 2015.

Competition Hint

“Location Is A Mysteron Quiz For The Captain”

We are hoping to encourage the property sleuthing abilities each and every reader has with this edition’s competition. Best wishes and good luck from the Unique Property Bulletin Team

Email free entries to Unique Property Bulletin:-

Click Here For Competition Entry Contact Page

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Try Before You Buy

The property included within the try-before-you-buy section of the Unique Property Bulletin – is NOT for sale. Our endeavour is to provide a sample, and actual experience of what it would be like to live in any particular genre of unusual abode. This specific listing is for a short-stay break. Our offering for this edition:-

Staying In A Railway Station

Old Tavistock Railway Station, Quant Park, Tavistock, Devon, PL16 0JQ a

Old Tavistock Railway Station, Quant Park, Tavistock, Devon

This Bulletin has an literal try-before-you-buy. Normally this section’s suggestion is to have a taste – and some fun – with an unusual property by holidaying or renting it for a while rather than buy. To appreciate the design, detail and endeavour that goes into a unique property conversion/restoration project prior to embarking on what is often the significant and sizeable endeavour of jumping straight in and buying a unique home.

Unusually, and for this edition, we have a try-before-you-buy of a property that is also for sale (as illustrated earlier in this Bulletin).

There are also very good 360 degree views and visual tours of various elements at Old Tavistock Railway Station. Please remember to click on the drop-down menu at the top right hand corner to look at the full selection of different parts of this former railway station.

Location: Old Tavistock Railway Station, Quant Park, Tavistock, Devon, PL16 0JQ

Guide: Special Offer Example – 3 night break arriving on the 14 Sep 2015 for £375.00. Sleeps 4. Equates to £31.25 per person per night if the full compliment of four folk visit together.

Further Details: Click Here

& Click Here

Contact: 01822 610 136

Testimonials: Very Good to Excellent – Click Here

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“Sitting In A Railway Station”

Whilst On The Topic of Railway Stations – For Old Time’s Sake…

Click The Photo Above To Watch The Video

A small postscript – Musician Paul Simon’s chart topping American song Homeward_Bound was composed at one of Britains other railway stations….

Homeward Bound - Widnes Train Station Little Chris

Who Knew!

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Architecturally Unique

Please note, each edition we feature the work of a unique architect. These properties are usually NOT currently for sale, but are included to help inspire readers as to the talent that abounds when a good architect’s mind meets the imagination of a unique property person, and something that little bit special is created by the synergy.

So Our Top & Commended Architects/Designers For This Unique Property Bulletin Are:-

Urban Space Management Ltd

&

Nicholas Lacey MA(Hons) Dip Arch RIBA

For The Container City™ Development

Container City - Arch Nicholas Lacey

Container City: Early Modular Project

Photograph Courtesy – Architect Nicholas Lacey

Developer’s Website: www.containercity.com

Even though we are going to run a feature article on shipping container homes later this year, we can’t contain our enthusiasm for these amazing full sized real life Lego building blocks. So this Bulletin we have a couple of interesting sipping-container based designs. The first, as pictured above is devised by Urban Space Management Ltd., with architect Nicholas Lacey. They have a trademarked project called Container City™. This development re-uses shipping-containers linked together to provide high strength, prefabricated steel modules that can be combined to create a wide variety of building shapes and can be adapted to suit most planning or end user needs.

Container City 2

Container City: Interior Clean Lines Very Usable Space

Fascinating Time lapse Build: Click Here

This modular technology enables construction time to be reduced by up to half those of traditional building techniques while minimalising on site disruption and remaining significantly more environmentally friendly.

From the urban, city scape, we move to the rural environment with a significant change of tenor. A tranquil place that many would happily consider calling home. Urban Space Management Ltd., have basically used 6 shipping-containers at £500 to £1,000 each to create this lovely home…

Container City Cove Park

Container City: Cove Park Project

Of course there are a lot of other costs above the core £3,000 to £6,000 container shell – land prices, planning fees, building control, build and conversion costs. But what a delightful place to live.

You can still see a little of the old container “Z” panel [ Click Here ] within the construct, but a characterful circular window just makes the simple shipping-container something much greater than it’s original relatively mundane purpose.

Container City Cove Park 2

Container City: Cove Park Project

To date Urban Space Management Ltd has successfully used the Container City™ system to create classrooms, office space, sports halls, nurseries, community centres, artist studios, retail space, live / work space, sound recording studios and a General Practice. This low cost approach to building has been commended by both Government and Private Sectors for its design and the economical way in which it recycles industrial products. Further details:-

Urban Space Management Ltd
The Riverside Building
Trinity Buoy Wharf
64 Orchard Place
London
E14 0JW

Tel: 020 7515 7153

www.containercity.com

www.containercity.com/projects

Along With…

Nicholas Lacey MA(Hons) Dip Arch RIBA

Insight Architects
66 Weymouth Avenue
London W5 4SB

Tel: 020 3592 6405

http://insightarchitects.co.uk/home/

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Very Informative Video of Container City….

Please Click On The Picture Above To Watch A Video Presentation

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This Edition’s Unique Property Feature:-

London Enigma

Admiralty Arch Photo Colin Smith

Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London, SW1A 2WH

One of Several Iconic & Unique London Capital Properties For Sale/Sold

Photograph Courtesy of Colin Smith

So what is our cunning plan – London Enigma – to help Bulletin readers looking to buy unique property in the Capital?

Well, the pool of buyers for mighty landmark’s such as Admiralty Arch are fairly rarefied given the likely £60,000,000 buy-in to £110,000,000 full refurbishment price tag. However, whoever buys massive buildings such as this are often developers looking to split the very large structure into many bite-sized apartment – or even hotel rooms. These smaller places to live and dwell are, in the future, likely to come up for resale/rental as the major project is divided into more affordable parts. Well “affordable” by London standards – still eye-watering for those outwith the M25 ring of planetary price heights.

So our recommended advice for this Unique Property Bulletin is one way to find a unique property to buy in London..

Look at the seriously big unique building projects that come up for sale. Then pro-actively approach the developer and see if it may be possible to buy off-plan. After your due diligence, legal advice, conveyancing questions etc.

The Admiralty Arch is likely to become a hotel, and we shall cover that logistic in a later Bulletin – but the principle of larger projects being redeveloped into smaller, more manageable units is sound.

Admiralty Arch Photo Savills and Andrew Cusack

Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London, SW1A 2WH

Photograph Courtesy of Andrew Cusack & Savills

Whichever London landmark you are curious about find out the owner and keep in touch with them. Particularly if looks like their plans are to sell prospective, but as of yet, undeveloped apartments within any given major London property acquisition.

Hopefully this lateral thought process makes sense. For our part it is one way in which we can highlight amazing London property that is coming up for sale, without having the property go off market before we can share the details with our friends and colleagues who read Unique Property Bulletin.

If you are looking for an unusual place to stay in London and the examples here tweak your interest it is worth noting that the current UK Government are looking to sell of a number of genuinely unique, indeed iconic London properties. The Admiralty Arch is just one of them. It will be a prestigious address, even by London standards. Just look through the main gate to see who your neighbours is…

Admiralty Arch Photo Thomas Nugent

Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London, SW1A 2WH – Click Here

Photograph With Buckingham Palace Along The Mall Courtesy of Thomas Nugent

Not that you are likely to be popping across the way to borrow a cup of sugar from your new neighbour H.M. Queen Elizabeth, but the view along The Mall is undoubtedly and literally spectacular. Especially at various key events when the whole nine yards of colour and pageantry literally roll through the doors under your new flat, or London hotel room.

Admiralty Arch Photo Rod Allday

Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London, SW1A 2WH

Photograph Courtesy of Rod Allday

This iconic London landmark features approximately 147,300 square feet across basement, lower ground, ground, and five upper floors. Sale background: Click Here .

As to this Bulletin’s feature regarding big London properties being converted into manageable smaller parts we have two more amazing places to add to our triumvirate of biggies in London…

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The Old War Office, Whitehall, Westminster, London

The Old War Office, Whitehall, Westminster Main 1

The Old War Office, Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1A 2EU

Photograph Courtesy of Chris O.

The heritage-listed building includes around 1,100 rooms across seven floors, linked by more than two miles of corridors.

The Old War Office, Whitehall, Westminster 2 By Stephen Richards

The Old War Office, Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1A 2EU

Photograph Courtesy of Stephen Richards

Completed in 1906, the Old War Office once housed secretaries of state including Lord Haldane, Lord Kitchener, David Lloyd-George and Churchill. The Old War Office has been put up for sale after being declared surplus to MoD requirements. Background: Click Here. The current “sold” status has yet to be confirmed, but please note, our aim at the Bulletin for this feature article is to locate substantial and unique London property that may well be purchased by a large developer for conversion to smaller flats, that in turn can then be studied by our readers for possible purchase.

The Old War Office, Whitehall, Westminster 2 By Chris O

The Old War Office, Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1A 2EU

Photograph Courtesy of Chris O.

Meanwhile, the next example for our London unique property sleuthing…

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Former Port of London Authority HQ

10 Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4AA

Former Port of London Authority HQ
10 Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4AA.

This remarkable and elegant capital building overlooks the River Thames. It was designed by Sir Edwin Cooper; built by John Mowlen & Co., as the new headquarters of the Port of London Authority.

Making An Entrance 10 Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4AA

Former Port of London Authority HQ
10 Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4AA.

London's Trinity Building In 007 James Bond Film Skyfall

In 2012 the building featured in the James Bond 007 film Skyfall.

London’s Trinity Building In James Bond 007 Film Skyfall – Daniel Craig Not Included In Sale

Photograph Courtesy of EON Productions

Undeniably A Magnificent Property, Even By London Standards

Former Port of London Authority Building 2

Former Port of London Authority HQ
10 Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4AA.

Agency Narrative: Ten Trinity Square is a famous landmark within the City of London, close to Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. The building is undergoing a complete refurbishment to 21st century standards of excellence to create an address of real prestige in the one of world’s greatest financial and business districts. Please Note: a future feature article in Unique Property Bulletin will illustrate how it is possible to live in such places when it might appear, after some research, that this may not be achievable in current circumstances.

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Former Port of London Authority HQ
10 Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4AA.

The development will feature 41 outstanding residences, a luxury Four Seasons hotel, spa and fine restaurants. The building’s original classical meeting rooms are being restored to provide the facilities for the members Club. Further information: Click Here  & Especially Click Here.

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