Tucked away under a grassy hill, at first glance this incredible subterranean house could have stepped off the pages of The Hobbit, but look a little closer and rather than Bilbo Baggins’s quaint cosy cottage it in fact bears more resemblance to a James Bond villain’s underground lair. Dubbed Walnut Burrow – a name which somewhat betrays its state of the art design – the £2.5million home in Loudwater, Hertfordshire, took 18 months to build with developers having to excavate 5,000 tons of soil before work could get underway.
The one-of-a-kind dwelling has four bedrooms, all of which are en-suite, a huge living room, dining room and kitchen, a cinema and a central courtyard. And all of this is hidden hidden below ground level – with the developers behind the brand-new home given the strict task of building a property out of sight of the neighbours.
