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I realize the world population is exploding, plus a lot of our former serfs have acquired buying power. The result is the competition for beach front property has become stiff, and the prices stiffer.
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You want beach front property? Walk this way sir. It's yours for a mere £500,000 ($810,000)
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Off the coast of the Isle of Grain there is a unique building, with an unforgettable address, which is looking for a new owner. Number 1, The Thames, otherwise known as Grain Tower Battery, was built around 1855. Planted on a spit of land on the Isle of Grain, it can only be reached at low tide. The bomb-proof 150 year-old estuary gun emplacement is a kilometre off the Isle of Grain shore at the strategically important point where the Thames meets the Medway. The original tower is similar in design to the Martello towers which were first constructed as a defence against Napoleon in the early 19th Century. The property is of course in need of complete renovation but could be transformed into almost anything (STPP) - a private residence, an off shore hotel, a houseboat community, outdoor pursuit centre, film location, nightclub, casino to name a few!
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So, it needs a little renovation. Nothing that a few weekends and a visit to your local DIY store won't put right.
It's had a battering from a tidal estuary for the last century-and-a-half and it was an anchor point for anti-submarine steel netting during the last Anglo-German unpleasantness but it will probably last another century or two.
No 1 The Thames
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