The Ness. © National Trust

No Grand Tour paintings, no Chippendale furniture, no antique china - Orofrd Ness is not the typical National Trust property.

Orford Ness is, rather, a curiously beautiful coastal site, dotted with surreal structures on its shingle expanse. Owned by the National Trust since

The isolated Suffolk landscape belies its former use as a secret military testing site with mysterious old buldings and debris. You can see why it was chosen for covert tasks

The Bomb. © National Trust