Yours for £200,000: Nuclear bunker built for £30 MILLION in 1990 with its own hospital, workshop commercial kitchen and BBC recording studio goes on the market

  • Bunker on Cultybraggan Camp base, west of Dundee, Scotland, was designed to protect 150 people from nuclear war
  • It includes its own hospital and kitchen among the 49 rooms spread across two levels underground
  • It also features a BBC recording studio which would have been used to contact survivors on the outside

By Chris Pleasance

PUBLISHED: 09:35 EST, 7 March 2014 | UPDATED: 12:02 EST, 7 March 2014


A nuclear bunker which cost the Government more than £30million to build and comes complete with a BBC recording studio is expected to sell for just £200,000.

The vast Cold War centre was built in 1990 on a former POW camp which once housed Nazi Rudolf Hess. It featured a built-in hospital, workshop, canteen, commercial kitchen and accommodation for 150.

But fortunately it was never needed and was sold off by the Ministry of Defence in 2007. It is now back on the market and is expected to sell for around £200,000 when it is auctioned off later this month.

This former nuclear bunker just west of Dundee in Scotland has gone on sale for £200,000 and features 26,000sqft of accommodation

This former nuclear bunker just west of Dundee in Scotland has gone on sale for £200,000 and features 26,000sqft of accommodation

The hide-away has 49 rooms and was designed to house 150 people, but is in need of some tender loving care after a few decades without use

The hide-away has 49 rooms and was designed to house 150 people, but is in need of some tender loving care after a few decades without use

In order to help people survive the fallout from an atomic blast, the bunker is fitted with air filters, backup generators and water storage tanks

In order to help people survive the fallout from an atomic blast, the bunker is fitted with air filters, backup generators and water storage tanks

For slightly more than the average price of a British home, a survivalist would get around 26,000sq/ft of accommodation. Spread over two levels, there are 49 rooms with 27 of these on the top floor.

Lower down would have been the living quarters, which would have held 150 people along with the hospital. There are also an impressive array of life support systems, including air filtration plants, backup generators and water storage tanks.

 

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And it boasts a BBC recording studio, which was installed so the government of the day could speak to the public in the event of a nuclear war. The property is located on the Historic Cultybraggan Camp, 28 miles west of Dundee in Scotland.

The bunker was fitted out to allow 150 officials to outlast nuclear warfare buried deep underground where radiation was less likely to affect them

The bunker was fitted out to allow 150 officials to outlast nuclear warfare buried deep underground where radiation was less likely to affect them

While the property may make a poor home, it could easily be used for data storage as the design protects it from solar flares which can knock out sensitive computing equipment

While the property may make a poor home, it could easily be used for data storage as the design protects it from solar flares which can knock out sensitive computing equipment

The enormous bunker was supposed to be a regional survival hub and is split over two levels with 27 rooms on the top floor alone

The enormous bunker was supposed to be a regional survival hub and is split over two levels with 27 rooms on the top floor alone

Rudolf Hess, Hitler's number two, was held at the camp for one night in 1941 following his failed peace trip to Scotland. Cultybraggan nuclear bunker will be auctioned off on March 27 in Edinburgh by Future Property Auctions.

Darryl Cormack, head of corporate sales at the auction house, said: 'It is not the first bunker I have come across but it is pretty unusual. The most interesting thing is the BBC room, which would have been used to control what's aired post nuclear war.

The site was designed to provide shelter in the event of a nuclear disaster and even includes a BBC recording studio which would have been used to communicate with survivors

The site was designed to provide shelter in the event of a nuclear disaster and even includes a BBC recording studio which would have been used to communicate with survivors

The cavernous interior of the bunker provides a chilling insight into what life might have been like for survivors of nuclear warfare as they cowered underground

The cavernous interior of the bunker provides a chilling insight into what life might have been like for survivors of nuclear warfare as they cowered underground

'You'd be able to get on the radio and reassure the public there was still a government. I expect there to be a great deal of interest from people who like history but also for commercial reasons.

'It is ideal for data storage because sun flares can't penetrate the bunker. It's not small, it was a regional bunker and is massive and as it was one of the last built it is one of the most technologically advanced.'


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I remember the bunker well from the start of survival exercises on CCF camps!

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A Prison?

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And its biggest selling point? - big gates, a large fence and no immediate neighbours, bliss.

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many years ago a friend who was in the Police told me how he had been talking to a local Councillor, who was full of their own importance. The councillor made reference to the fact that in the event of a nuclear attack the Officer would be armed and have to transport the councillor to the local bunker from where they would take command of the area, they then laughed and said but of course you will have to stay outside as only important people will be inside. The officer smiled and replied you forgot which one of us will have the gun, and decide who gets in! Apparently at a meeting a short while later the same councillor demanded that the local chief Police officer , inform all his officers that if they failed to follow the rules in the event of an attack they would face disciplinary action and could be sacked!!

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If a nuclear event did occur,i bet the MOD would commander it,and the owner ejected.

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If a nuclear event did occur,i bet the MOD would commander it,and the owner would be ejected.

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It would be interesting to see who the privileged 150 people were and how they were going to get up from London in time?

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you do know that there are more then 1 nuclear bunker in Britain right?

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zombie apocalypse anyone?

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was £50,000 before all this Russia and Ukraine stuff started lol.

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I concur with those who say that we may well need it at the rate the world is going. Russian rhetoric alone could bully the US into havin c to respond. Might literally be the buy of someone's life..or should that be "for" a life?

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