Many surviving buildings and sites that had important roles or were occupied by key people during the Second World War have been restored, repurposed or redeveloped into housing. From former military bases and hospitals to a politician’s retreat, all these homes serve as reminders of our wartime past.
For over 250 years, this Georgian naval hospital cared for sick and wounded sailors and marines, including casualties from the Napoleonic, Boer and Falklands Wars as well as from the First and Second World Wars.
It’s now being transformed into a waterside village of more than 550 new and converted apartments and houses, in 62 acres of grounds with views of the English Channel, Portsmouth and towards the Isle of Wight.
The first 38 of 146 homes — a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, many catering for retirement living — are on sale in Grade II-listed Trinity House. Larger than average, they incorporate high ceilings, big windows and original architectural features.
You might have spotted the development in a recent episode of BBC’s Interior Design Masters, when contestants were tasked with designing show apartments. By Royal Haslar through Fox & Sons.
Three-, four- and five-bedroom houses are currently available from David Wilson Homes, one of several house builders at this new community, master developed by Urban&Civic.
This site was previously RAF Alconbury, an airbase operational from 1938 and under the control of both the British and American Air Forces.
The 80th anniversary of VE Day is being commemorated at Alconbury on Saturday 10 May with an event featuring live 1940s-themed music, military vehicles and more. Via David Wilson Homes and Urban & Civic.
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This spacious seven-bedroom, three-bathroom single storey home forms part of a property established as a Marconi radio station in 1927. A vital communications hub between Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower — then supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe — in World War Two, it was here that the first message about the Falklands invasion was received in 1982.
The radio station closed in 2000 and has recently been turned into nine luxury homes, known as Falkland Court. Contact Connells.
The Control Tower was originally the control tower at RAF Findo Gask, opened in 1941 as a flying training airfield.

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