An derogatory historical fort that is vacant for 17 years has been converted into a ready party island – Complete with your nightclub.
Thorne Island was once a house for 100 officers, which was in the 19th -century Napoleon Fort to protect the nearby Milford Heaven, which was then a major naval base at Pambrookshire coast,
It was changed In a hotel Having been hired for birthday parties, weddings and stag parties in 1947 and before being sold in 1999.
Despite the proposals to reopen a hotel on the site, complete with a new cable car on the mainland, it was empty and overgrowth for 17 years until a former software CEO Mike Konner did not snatch it for £ 555,000 in May 2017.
Now, after five -year laborious renewal – in which the construction material distributed through the helicopter was observed – the island may be yours for a cool £ 3 million.
Spread up to 2.5 acres, the island has panoramic coastal scenes and more than 8,000 square feet of housing, with a helipad and a nightclub.
Mr. Konner, who hosted a festival there for his 50th birthday, hopes that whoever takes it enjoys the island as he has.
He thinks that it is a great ability to operate as a tourist attraction or, to disturb any neighbor, not to host “the most incredible waves”.
Mr. Konner said that he envisaged the site offering “incredible 24-hour experience” with the ability to host around 800 people.
He told BBC When he took to the major project, he “I didn’t know what I was doing myself”.
“There was no electricity, no water, and any food or garbage needed to come back,” he said.
“My wife was very cross when I first said that I had bought it, she said that she once had a flushing louis, which is very appropriate.”
The cost of reaching that milestone was £ 200,000, when she came to know that she needed to cut through 16 feet rock to go to the biodegster pump.
The workers stayed on the island in two -week innings, while renewed, to charge your phone using a generator and wash into the sea.
Now this project is complete, visitors are welcomed in a grand entrance hall, which is seated according to its list with a large open plan reception, dining and seating room with traditional brickwork, vaulted roof, double aspect sash window and wood burning stoves, with estate agents. Strat and Parker,
The kitchen is an open plan with a modern, equipped kitchen and a wooden burning stoves, exposed brick work and close snag with sea views. It currently has five bedrooms, sleeping up to 20 guests.
Being completely away from the grid, it claims a series of renewable energy systems, including a PV solar display with 100kwh battery storage, air source heat pump and underfallor heating for hot water and 250,000-letters rain harvest systems.