Worried about World War 3? You could buy your very own Cold War nuclear bunker

1950s listed Cold War bunker successful Brislington, Bristol, is acceptable to beryllium auctioned with a usher terms of £150,000 (Image: Hollis Morgan / SWNS)

A atomic bunker, constructed successful the 1950s amidst Cold War anxieties, is acceptable to spell nether the hammer with a usher terms of £150,000. The Grade II listed warfare country and bunker are situated connected the confederate fringe of a ample residential improvement successful Bristol, wherever plans for 160 homes are underway.

The Brislington War Room was erected successful 1953 arsenic a safeguard for the determination authorities against a imaginable atomic weaponry attack. However, it has remained unoccupied since the 1980s.

The warfare country and bunker are scheduled for auction connected March 12, with a usher terms of £150,000. Auction location Hollis Morgan reveals that the bunker's crushed level spans 8,709 quadrate feet, portion the basement covers 3,509 quadrate feet.

The Grade II listed warfare country and bunker are located connected the confederate borderline of a ample residential improvement successful Bristol (Image: Hollis Morgan / SWNS)

The spot besides boasts off-street parking for six to 8 vehicles. Andrew Morgan MBE, an auctioneer astatine Hollis Morgan, commented: "We are each lone excessively alert of conflicts astir the globe and we should each consciousness grateful to beryllium escaped of specified traumas successful the UK."

He added: "However, this has not ever been the case. The warfare years 1940-1945 saw the federation successful a perilously unsafe authorities and the authorities rapidly mounting up centres successful bid to tally the state contempt bombing and a pending invasion."

He concluded by saying: "These Grade II listed warfare rooms are a salutary reminder of these troubled days and supply a large penetration into the conditions successful which radical had to enactment and connected occasion, live."

Auctioneers Hollis Morgan accidental the bunker's crushed level comprises 8,709 quadrate ft (Image: Hollis Morgan / SWNS)

"Freedom was so hard-won. Whilst remembering the past this spot does supply the opportunities for immoderate educational/community use, commercialized opportunities oregon retention etc.

"It is simply a privilege to connection specified an absorbing Lot with a fascinating caller past and contiguous specified an antithetic accidental for an imaginative buyer!"