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

Watch station at RAF Ibsley is thought to be structurally unique as well as historically important

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.