The £2m house for sale complete with a VICTORIAN FORT in its garden

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@Ukbrummie 2 жыл бұрын

If I had 2 million I could heat my house for a month

@Diamerald 2 жыл бұрын

You need better insulation and to weather strip windows and doors.

@pepperroni6252 2 жыл бұрын

@@Diamerald that only makes a small dent

@Diamerald 2 жыл бұрын

@@pepperroni6252 Works for us. We also got rid of gas “propane “ heating. $600.+for a fill! Ridiculous! Our electric bill goes up a little during the winter.

@pepperroni6252 2 жыл бұрын

@@Diamerald Ah I mean in the UK where the price cap has just gone up

@fastyaveit 2 жыл бұрын

That's today in Oct you'll need double 😭

@migtimber635 2 жыл бұрын

An excellent base for Savdro and his Tubcons.

@huw3851 2 жыл бұрын

£2 Million seems cheap to me for the amount of land and where it is. I'm guessing the protected site status lowers the value?

@resonatorneuronium5324 2 жыл бұрын

It’s the Isle of Wight. Not central London.

@bremnersghost948 2 жыл бұрын

Hope my Euromillions numbers come in on Friday lol

@DemonofChaos264 2 жыл бұрын

Man I love these videos with Tim he's so easy to follow and very informative. Looks like a great house but maintaining the storage rooms after rain etc. would be a nightmare.

@simongee8928 2 жыл бұрын

Its amazing that all these structures are still there and in such good condition. Long may it stay this way.

@willienelsongonzalez4609 2 жыл бұрын

Crikey! If I had the money I would love to buy the property and restore some of the grounds complete with artistic images of what the fort may have looked like. Absolutely fascinating.

@VanderlyndenJengold 2 жыл бұрын

I'd install the guns too.

@creativedwarf2730 2 жыл бұрын

@@VanderlyndenJengold ye lol

@huw3851 2 жыл бұрын

I'd have the testing tank repaired and filled - and perhaps stocked with some pretty fish to swim amongst. 🐟🐠

@infidel202 2 жыл бұрын

@@huw3851 parrana

@jvalentine8376 2 жыл бұрын

If the fortifications have been taken over by the National trust then you don't have control of your own property . I would be careful buying this if the National trust is involved .

@CodeUK93 2 жыл бұрын

This is cool I live a literal stones throw away from where the Thornycroft warehouses used to be in woolston!

@retro61 2 жыл бұрын

More of these videos about repurposed military sites please. Fascinating!

@lizstubbs2969 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is super cool thank you for filming here 👍👍

@eviloverlordsean 2 жыл бұрын

As always, I watch Forces News and learn something extraordinary...

@AtheistOrphan 2 жыл бұрын

A fascinating ‘pause for fort’.

@jordanleigh8119 2 жыл бұрын

I hope whoever's busy this doesnt get rid of this. It's his

@petterin1 2 жыл бұрын

My kind of house!

@jeanbishop-greentree2628 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

@fordy. 2 жыл бұрын

Great blog.

@thegoldeneagle9890 2 жыл бұрын

It is strange to make a fort that can not see the target

@wetincornwall6882 2 жыл бұрын

Basically a static artillery emplacment

@nightjarflying 2 жыл бұрын

It makes sense. Steynewood Battery was a High Angle Battery further inland than any other coastal battery on the Island & hidden in the Steyne Wood - any enemy fleet would not be able to locate & counter-attack the battery. The fire was directed from a higher OP in a different location. The idea was a failure in principle because although plunging fire is very good against armoured ships, the shell flight time is lengthened - thus it takes the shells nearly a minute to reach target, by which time the enemy ship[s] have moved on by 200 to 400 metres.

@gamarus0kragh 2 жыл бұрын

@@nightjarflying Additionally, the impact area of the shell covers a much smaller footprint and futher reduces the chance of striking the target. (With a flat trajectory, any shell that would fall on the target AND in the area 'shaded' by the target will be a hit. With a much steeper angle, this shaded area is correspondingly smaller.)

@elwram 2 жыл бұрын

I delivered an Ikea order here twice in 2014. Incredible place

@1982rrose 2 жыл бұрын

Thornycroft as in the rifle?

@ek8710 2 жыл бұрын

Same name, different chap.

@nightjarflying 2 жыл бұрын

No. John Isaac Thornycroft the shipbuilder of old is not related to James Baird Thorneycroft who patented a bullpup carbine

@fraserconnell21 2 жыл бұрын

1st job.... I win the lottery! 2nd job after the big win, I bloomin buy that house💥 🏠 👍🙏🙏

@PhilbyFavourites 2 жыл бұрын

5:30 you’ve just showed the latest Axopar’s stepped hull…

@musicandbooklover-p2o 2 жыл бұрын

I'm just £1,800,000 short. Beautiful property and the fort is worth the price alone. Very interesting, thank you.

@nigg2811 2 жыл бұрын

Evidently the British Government in Victorian times also wasted public money. But of course, it was mere peanuts compared to nowadays.

@thebrowns5337 2 жыл бұрын

Although the faulty PPE from mates/donors with no experience won't be beaten! (Unless tge tories keep getting voted in).

@britishginge4474 2 жыл бұрын

That's really cool 🇬🇧

@felixthecat265 2 жыл бұрын

Not quite right.. The "tube" that was stored on the shelf by the door was the igniter that was used to fire the gun. The shell was issued to the battery empty and plugged, and then filled through the base with the tip resting on the wood block in the floor. It would then be plugged again or fuzed and moved to the shell store. Fuzes and tubes were stored at the entrance because they contained mercury fulminate and were inherantly dangerous so were kept away from the main store. The "shifting lobby" with the wood barrier would normally have been kept closed. Ammunition staff would leave their outdoor clothes and shoes on the outside of the barrier and step over the bar in their underclothes or naked into special magazine shoes and dress in magazine clothes on the other side of the barrier. The aim was to prevent grit or other spark producing agents into the magazine area where loose powder would be present. There is a similar arrangement in the magazine at the Needles battery, and in the deep magazines in Fort Nelson.