Want to buy a nuclear bunker?

"An unusual opportunity," says the estate agent. He's not kidding. It's a nuclear bunker that was converted to a data centre and used by security company Symantec.

For a nuclear bunker, the premises, near Twyford in Hampshire, has a short history. It was only completed in 1990 - as a partial conversion of a 1905 water reservoir - and decommissioned in 1997.



We visited it in 2005, when it was a secure data centre for security company Symantec. Now it is up for sale. On Dec 16, it will be sold by property auction company Clive Empson.

“This is not your average property, what with blast-proof fittings, a chute for ejecting people in an emergency, air filters and independent power and water supplies," Rob Marchant, the Whiteley-based auctioneer, told local news source This is Hampshire.

The bunker was actually put up for sale in February, but that fell through.

Now it's back, with £60,000 knocked off the guide price, reducing it from £300,000 to £240,000.

But will the recession produce a lower price? Or will global uncertainy (and the new series of Survivors) make the idea of a blast-proof bolthole more attractive?