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Edinburgh Live
National
Neil Pooran

Unique East Lothian clifftop property on the market as 'the perfect evil lair'

The new Avengers film is out soon, and if Thanos is still looking for a retirement bolthole he could do a lot worse than this.

A stunning clifftop property in East Lothian is on the market for £3.5m, and it's been described as "the perfect evil lair."

Gin Head, near North Berwick, is a luxury development opportunity which could become a family retreat or business like a hotel or recording studio.

It also has a fascinating history, having served as a listening outpost during the Second World War where the Royal Navy tried to intercept U-boat communications and develop jamming technology for the D-Day landings.

(Domus Nova)

However today it's on the market as a 13-bedroom house, after the station was decommissioned in the 1990s.

While much of the 26,000 square foot property dates back to the 1940s and is derelict, it's set to be transformed into a stunning contemporary fortress.

The site has planning permission for a major revamp overseen by Italian architects Lazzarini Pickering.

Its closest neighbour is the 14th Century Tantallon Castle, a few hundred metres along the coastline.

Estate agents Domus Nova say: "Set atop one of the most dramatic coastlines in the country, Gin Head is a unique plot in Scotland which offers a motley of wildly thrilling development propositions.

"Truly a diamond in the rough, the property itself has a fascinating past, originally founded as an Admiralty signals base in 1943… the perfect ‘evil lair’ if ever we saw one!

"The plot sits almost solitary in one of the most visually compelling sites in Britain, surrounded by sensational rock formations, emerald cliffs and mesmerising, infinite seas; its closest neighbour is the monumental ruins of Tantallon Castle."

You can find out more about Gin Head here.

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