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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Esther Addley

‘Almost modernist’: appeal launched to save derelict RAF airbase building

The RAF Ibsley watch office, Hampshire
The RAF Ibsley watch office, Hampshire, ‘looks pretty miserable’ today, but the Landmark Trust hopes to restore it. Photograph: Landmark Trust

Its walls are made of crumbling concrete and covered in graffiti, its windows shattered or stolen, and the landscape it was built to oversee has long since been dug up and carted away.

But this derelict shell in a corner of rural Hampshire, once a wartime RAF watching station, is so rare and important that it must urgently be saved, according to building conservation campaigners.

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