Home with 15m underground tunnels on sale for £300k
The distinctive advanced accommodates greater than 1,300 sq. ft of underground house, together with tunnels and storage rooms – and even a hand-built railway.
One room even includes a secret entrance – hidden inside a rocket by the pool.
There is a one-tonne items raise and two secret doorways – one shaped by a 1.5-tonne sliding concrete wall.
READ MORE: Reading odour complaints more than double to 207 in a year
Hidden for many years beneath a workshop in a suburb of Tilehurst in Reading – the community descends via 4 ranges and reaches greater than 15m beneath floor.
Tony, whose preliminary day job was within the building of aerodrome and airport roads, began the development work by himself in the course of the Nineteen Eighties and ‘90s.
He was additionally assisted by his six youngsters.
The solely equipment the household used to conduct the digging and transfer chalk have been buckets and wheelbarrows.
Richard Worrall, auctioneer and guide at BTG Eddisons Property Auctions, mentioned: “In all my years as an auctioneer, I’ve by no means seen something like this earlier than – it’s totally superb and, I feel, distinctive.
“What a feat to create this as a household mission and as a pastime.”
The Deane household’s subterranean initiatives started even earlier, within the Sixties, with the development of underground altering rooms subsequent to the property’s swimming pool.
The entrance was hidden behind a 23ft-high rocket, which remains to be in place right now.
Despite the size of the mission, its existence is known to have remained largely unknown outdoors the household, together with to neighbours within the surrounding residential space.
Richard Worrall mentioned: “Most of those tunnels have been dug via chalk, which is of course self-supporting, whereas, in some locations, the place required, structural concrete was used and solid by hand.
“Incredibly, completely every part was excavated manually.
“Mr Deane additionally constructed a railway via the tunnels to move the excavated chalk, in addition to constructing a four-layer, one-tonne items raise to hold it to floor stage.”
The web site is accessed through a safe gated driveway and features a 2,500 sq ft workshop organized over three flooring, parking, gardens, a big swimming pool and altering rooms.
Planning consent was granted by West Berkshire Council in December 2024 for a 5,000 sq ft, five-bedroom, two-storey home to be constructed on the positioning of the swimming pool, whereas conversion of the workshop has consent for conversion to a three-bedroom home.
READ MORE: Police appeal after £1,000 of goods stolen from shops
Richard added: “The underground house is clearly a recreation changer to say the least and we imagine it might provide an imaginative purchaser a variety of potential makes use of, something from safe storage, a fallout shelter or an EMP-resistant information centre to a prepper’s paradise.”
The property has a information value of £300,000-£325,000 and shall be included in BTG Eddisons Property Auctions’ dwell stream public sale on 28-29 October.
For additional particulars and bidding data, go to www.btgeddisonspropertyauctions.com.
