With mortgage rates continuing to rise and the cost of living at historically high levels, it might not be the best time to think about buying a house right now. But if you are, how about something a little out of the ordinary? How about living in an aircraft control tower, for example?
Tower House in the Somerset village of Templecombe is a former aircraft control tower with its own lookout on the roof. It’s been converted into a family home and has hit the market for the first time in almost 40 years.
Sitting on 4.75 acres of land, right next to Henstridge Airfield, the unusual-looking property consists of a two-bedroom flat on the ground floor, as well as a first floor maisonette, with five bedrooms, and the lookout, which would have once looked over the original airfield.
With the purchase, you’ll also get a load of outbuildings which are currently used as workshops and could be turned into something else. The property agent wrote: ‘The whole site offers a variety of options for a change of use and may well, due to the proximity to other commercial enterprises, suit changing the whole site to a commercial use.’
The property is currently on the market with Woolley & Wallis estate agents for £895,000. Find out more here.
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