Wartime watchtower with gun turret converted into seven storey home for sale for £500k
  • 5 months ago
A 70ft high wartime watchtower - complete with a gun turret - which was converted into a seven-storey home is up for sale for £500,000.
The iconic Grade II listed Tynemouth Watchtower, near Newcastle, was built in 1916 as a military lookout post.
Gun turrets were added and the watchtower was called into action again in 1939 to protect the North East coast from a feared Nazi naval invasion.
Owned originally by the War Office, the 70ft tower is one of the tallest of its kind and was extensively used during World War Two.