A FORMER radar station near North Berwick is on the market for £3.5 million.

Gin Head, near Tantallon Castle, is being marketed as accommodation by Goldsmith and Co and Domus Nova.

The buildings are the survivors of the Admiralty signals base, which was founded in 1943.

According to Goldsmith and Co: “In these buildings, scientists forensically explored captured German radar equipment, influencing the outcome of the Second World War, particularly crucial in the months leading up to the Allied Invasion of France.

“The deception and jamming operations tested at Gin Head were key to the success of the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

“They helped to deceive the German High Command into thinking that the British naval and airborne forces would arrive in France via the Pas De Calais, rather than in Normandy.

“The buildings that were designed for what turned out to be vital war work, built to withstand enemy action, have been explored in the architectural vision.” In October 2011, planning permission was given to Dunglass Ltd, which proposed changing the laboratory buildings to form seven houses.

At that time, North Berwick Environment Trust objected to the style and construction of the buildings as they were proposed to be altered and extended and felt “a traditional rural design” was required.

A renewal of planning permission is currently with East Lothian Council, while planning permission to change the buildings into one single house, complete with swimming pool and underground car parking, put forward by Dunglass Ltd, was granted in January last year.

The brochure for the property states: “The most visually compelling site available on the coast of Scotland.

“Thirty miles from cosmopolitan city Edinburgh and world-renowned golf courses – a strategically placed promontory of wild and restless landscape.

“Stand still and look over the dancing, crashing waves of the Firth of Forth, and what do you see? A sweeping vista without cars, roads or buildings.

“It gives you a front-seat view of three of East Lothian’s most stirring landscapes, including your nearest neighbour, the magnificent and monumental ruins of 14th-century Tantallon Castle, perched on the cliff top to the east of Gin Head, a mere 300 metres away.”