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27th January 2008

RAF Bentley Priory

RAF Bentley Priory in Stanmore, Middlesex, revered as the nerve centre of the Battle of Britain, the spiritual home of "the Few" - the fighter pilots who deterred the German aerial invasion in 1940 against all the odds, is to be closed and sold off.

The Priory is perched on a hill commanding views across the whole of London to the South Downs beyond, is an Grade II* house with an astonishing history, beautifully remodelled and extended by the great 18th-century architect Sir John Soane, is soon to be sold off as multi-million pound luxury apartments as part of the RAF's withdrawal from six London sites to a new single HQ at RAF Northolt.

Daily Telegraph 27 January 2008

Brunel Design Group provided the closure report identifying the work needed to bring all the buildings on the site to a condition ready for the disposal process.

In addition to the Priory the site contains 17 other building with the potential for commercial use or conversion to housing. The RAF wartime headquarters underground bunker, extended and converted to a cold war communications centre in the 1980s, provides an unusual opportunity for a secure "bolthole" operation.

Client: Interserve (Defence) Ltd for PriDE the SE regional prime contract.

Bentley Priory
Bentley Priory Bunker