How would you like to live in a castle, a tree house even underground? This might not be as unusual as you think. It seems that these days more and more people want to live somewhere special and out of the ordinary and if they can't buy what they want they are quite prepared to build it from scratch their home rea For John Mew and his wife Josephine is their castle. They have built their own English c in the Sussex countryside. The building is brand new wi all the luxuries you would expect from a house that cost more than £350,000 to build. However, when you first see from the outside it would be easy to think that you looking at an ancient monument. The building ha of the features of a traditional castle, including a keep a moat and a drawbridge. "My choice of house somewhat eccentric and building it was very hard work but we've got the perfect place to live," Mew says Although some would say that the building is impractical and may be cold in harsh British winters, he certainly has got a unique and spacious home f you don't look carefully, you might not even see the home that Jonathan Ridley-Jones and Shanon Ridd built at all! That's because the house is a converted underground water tank. The only thing that can be seen from the surface is a door leading into the hillside. "We've never wanted to live in an ordinary house," Shanon says Living below ground means that our home is quiet and very cosy none of the usual draughts. It doesn't damage the local surroundings and has very low fuel bills. Some of our friends find it dark and feel shut in when they first visit, but they soon get used to it!