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Guide Price £180,000 10 Espionage Place 10 Espionage Place Guide Price £180,000 Maritime House, Southwell, Portland, DT5 2NL Property Features Two / Three Bedrooms Available fully furnished Coastal & Sea Views Allocated parking Balcony Communal garden Open plan living Brand new 125 year lease Presented in excellent Ideal holiday let / order investment Full Description ENTRANCE HALL Front door leads to the entrance hall which gives access to principle rooms with plenty of storage space for coats. OPEN PLAN LIVING AREA 29' 2" x 24' 7" (8.9m x 7.5m) As you enter this area you are greeted with the wonderful view over the Lighthouses and beyond to the English Channel. The open plan design works very well as you walk through you enter the kitchen area which is fitted out to a high spec with appliances. The kitchen has been well designed with plenty of wall and standing units and whilst creating culinary delights you have that amazing view. There is space for a dining table and chairs within the kitchen area. From the kitchen area it flows into the lounge area again enjoying the view from the double doors and large windows and of course the balcony. GALLERY / BEDROOM 3 15' 1" x 7' 2" (4.6m x 2.2m) From the lounge area is accessed the gallery room with wall to wall windows with views over the English Channel. MASTER BEDROOM 14' 9" x 12' 5" (4.5m x 3.8m) Overlooking the courtyard, ceiling light point, power points, state of the art wall mounted heater. Door to the ensuite. ENSUITE Ensuite shower room with fitted showe, low level push button W.C and vanity unit. BEDROOM 2 13' 9" x 11' 9" (4.2m x 3.6m) Overlooking the courtyard, ceiling light point, power points, state of the art wall mounted heaters. FAMILY SHOW ER ROOM Fitted shower, push button W.C and vanity unit. BALCONY Wrought iron balcony overlooking the lighthouses and the English Channel beyond. COMMUNAL GARDEN Laid to shingle ALLOCATED PARKING One allocated parking space with visitors spaces TENURE Leasehold 124 years LOCATION AND HISTORY Living in a piece of history. Southwell Park is a unique location in its own right and has had many uses over the years. At present the Atlantic Academy is located on the site as well as the Maritime Hotel. The Site is slowly becoming residential with planning permission passed for numerous other units on the site to be converted into residential accommodation. This really is a unique place to live with direct private access onto the coastal path which spans the Jurassic Coast. There are plans about to be submitted for an Eden project style attraction on Portland also. A Little bit of History below !!!!!!. Maritime house was built between 1948 and 1952 and made of Portland stone. A further wing was added in the 1970's. It was originally the Admiralty Gunnery Establishment. The walls were built to withstand explosions from inside.Portland stone has been used in buildings world wide including the United Nations building in New York. Many buildings in London used Portland stone including Buckingham Palace, The Tower Of London, The palace Of Westminster, The Cenotaph, London Bridge, The Bank Of England and st Paul's Cathedral. The front of the building looks out over Portland bill lighthouses and across the sea. The Portland spy ring operated out of maritime house. Recently declassified MI5 documents provide a wealth of information about spies during the Cold War period of history in the United Kingdom and the USA. Harry Houghton was working in Warsaw in an office of the Naval Attaché,where it was believed he was turned by the KGB, but was sent back to England because of his drinking and was able to secure a job at the top secrecy Admiralty Underwater defence establishment in maritime house on Portland. At the time the United Kingdom was commissioning its first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought and UDE was responsible for designing methods for detecting submarines and developing techniques for avoiding detection. Houghton started to attract attention to himself when he bought his fourth car, a house and would regularly buy rounds of drinks in his local pub. He was clearly a man living beyond his means.Harry Houghtons ex-wife had reported him to MI5 in 1960 after she noted that her husband had taken classified documents from the base and had taken them to London for the weekend. She confirmed in her statement that he had returned from one of these trips in a merry state and threw what she believed to be approximately £150 in the air. She was ignored. At a later stage, after the tip of from a polish spy that the Russians were receiving information, they gave Houghton the code name REVERBERATE and bugged the phone in his four bedroomed cottage he bought in Weymouth It was discovered that he was %epcGraph_c_1_339% having an affair with an employee of UDE, Ethel gee, who worked in the offices as a record keeper. She had more access to classified documents that Houghton. Plain clothes officers followed Houghton and gee to London on one of their trips and discovered them meeting with Gordon Lonsdale who ran and jukebox and bubblegum machine business, enjoying and good lifestyle It was only later, after Gordon Lonsdale was convicted of espionage,that his true identity of Konon Molody, son of 2 Russian scientists, who had been selected at childhood to be sent over seas as a spy, was discovered. He had worked in the Russian secret service during the Second World War and was then sent to Canada to continue his training and being giving his false identity of the real Lonsdale who was born in Canada but died in Russia after emigrating there. He used KGB funds to set up his business and later claimed to be the KGBs first multi-millionaire. These 174illegals Tuckton were Road know n as sleep-agentswww.solentestates.co.uk to be activated in the event of Agents Note: Whilst every care has been taken to prepare these sales war or to run other illegals. particulars, they are for guidance purposes only. All measurements are Bournemouth [email protected] approximate are for general guidance purposes only and whilst every care has Dorset 01202 418 294 been taken to ensure their accuracy, they should not be relied upon and BH6It was 3JX discovered that Molody regularly met with Paul Kroger potential buyers are advised to recheck the measurements who was an antiquarian bookseller, living in Ruislip with his wife Helen. MI5 surveillance teams were set up in a house opposite and listened to meetings between Houghton and Molody. By January 1961 the CIA became involved after a tip off from a spy .
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