An underground bunker, once a closely guarded military secret, is on the market.
The two-storey, 25-room complex lies a mile north-east of Inverbervie and is built into the brow of a hill that provides a commanding hill-top position overlooking the North Sea and the Howe of the Mearns.
The bunker was built by the Ministry of Defence as an emergency communications centre in 1952, but the end of the Cold War meant that in the 1980s it became surplus to requirements.
It was last marketed in the late 1990s and now the current owner has put it up for sale for a starting price of £250,000.
Solicitor Douglas Burnett, who is selling the site, said, “It’s a speciality property and is really something to behold.
“It’s fairly difficult to describe because it is such a novel building.
“But it’s most like something out of the film Dr No.
“There are these big mezzanine rooms which look down on to the floor below. It’s like nothing you will have ever seen before.”
The site at Bervie Brow provides 9000 square feet of floor space on two levels and is reached by a stone-built dummy lodge at surface level which is designed to look like a cottage but actually conceals the bunker entrance.
The lodge is of traditional stone construction and only when you get inside do you realise how different it is.
A sloping narrow corridor takes you 18 metres underground into the bunker which was built as a centimetric early warning radar station.
With the advent of supersonic, high flying bombers, every second saved in warning and control was vital. Inverbervie was part of a new system to cope with the threat.
Since hitting the market last week the property has drawn a lot of attention, and it has been suggested it may be used as a nightclub.
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