House in the Clouds

What you’re actually looking at is the top of an old 30′000 gallon water tower, brilliantly designed 85 years ago by architects who were asked to disguise what would have been an ugly 70ft high blot on the landscape of thorpeness - the village who benefited from its water storage capabilities until 1977.
The water tank was removed in 1979 and since then this lanky house has been renovated on a few different occasions, the result being a 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom home containing a total of 68 steps from top to bottom. the interior itself is very nicely done and can be seen at the building’s own website here where it seems you can also book a room and experience the place first-hand.
A video of the house took with a charming little clip below, featuring a song about a train journey which passes the building - at around 45 seconds you can just make it out in the distance. Not great but the song’s so pleasant.



A train journey on the now closed railway line from Saxmundham to Aldeburgh.
The song is "Slow train" by Flanders and Swann, a lament to the closure of the railways under Dr Beeching. LINK, Via: YouTube