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Yours for £40,000...the beach huts built for the 21st century springing up again along the British coast | Mail Online

I find this astonishing... In some parts of the country, these go for £70,000

My parents had one of these until they reached their senior years and sold It for £9,000

It was on the sea just outside of Brighton and all the kids In our family for generations thought It was magical. We'd go down for the day with our buckets, spades and nets while Father cooked sausages for our tea on a camper stove.

As kids we thought It was our little house but In reality, and In the cold light of adulthood, It was a smelly shed that you couldn't swing a cat In.

That's exactly what those look like, a storage shed. Amazing.

SnoozeAgain;1398040 wrote: That's exactly what those look like, a storage shed. Amazing. Some of the newer one's have electricity and running water now but years ago, my parents one had nothing.

Gosh, they are so small. How did you get a family in them, to sleep at night?

chonsigirl;1398047 wrote: Gosh, they are so small. How did you get a family in them, to sleep at night?


We never slept In them Chons. In summer, It gets dark around 9 pm at night so we'd pack up and leave the beach before then.

What they were originally designed for was a ladies modesty so she could change Into her bathing suit In privacy In Victorian times.

http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/LeisureCu ... story.aspx

Mind you... they were rather exclusive and expensive to buy even back then and It did give you a haughty sense of superiority watching the poor people struggle to get changed under a towel on the beach. :wah:

Call it a shed if you like, I'm quite impressed. The firm building them has a galley of images at Beach House Gallery - eco logic developments

Even if you take off the outside porch and steps you've got 240 square feet indoors, on two levels. The plan's 15 feet by about, at a guess, 8 and there's a ladder to the loft sleeping area.

It has over twice the floor space of http://www.editorial.fnphoto.com/stories/2150/story.htm if we want to make invidious comparisons. "War veterans and those who can prove long-term residency in San Francisco will get preference. An estimated 271,000 veterans in the US are believed to be homeless".

You're right, they look very nice and I'd happily live in one. However the photos in the OP's link don't look much like the ones your link shows.

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oscar;1398048 wrote: We never slept In them Chons. In summer, It gets dark around 9 pm at night so we'd pack up and leave the beach before then.

What they were originally designed for was a ladies modesty so she could change Into her bathing suit In privacy In Victorian times.

http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/LeisureCu ... story.aspx

Mind you... they were rather exclusive and expensive to buy even back then and It did give you a haughty sense of superiority watching the poor people struggle to get changed under a towel on the beach. :wah:


Thank you oscar, for day trips usually. I can't imagine driving that far and not staying a couple of days. In L.A. you just went to the beach with your swim suit under your shorts and top, took them off, went swimming all day, dried off and put your clothes back on and went home. But it was like a 30 minute drive to get there.

I guess here it was a 3 hour drive to the beach for us last week, I stay in a beach front hotel with a kichenette, and just sit there and tan and read all day long.

I would LOVE to own this little house:

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Before this thread goes way off beam, I am not talking about the eco new builds that Spot has linked.

The 'sheds' I was referring to are the original beach huts with no water, electricity and are now changing hands for anything up to £70,000 as I stated In my opening post.

This Is the article about the one being sole for £70,000

Dishevelled beach hut on exclusive promenade hits market for £70,000... but you can only use it from Easter until October | Mail Online

The beach huts In the Daily Mail's pictures from my first post are beach huts on the promenade at Hove which Is next to Brighton and trust me, one of those sheds will set you back thousands.

oscar;1398090 wrote: Before this thread goes way off beam, I am not talking about the eco new builds that Spot has linked.

Well, yes you were, It was, after all, your link in the OP that I followed.



The "beach huts built for the 21st century springing up again along the British coast" your original Daily Mail link discussed was, to quote the Daily Mail, "The first of the huts, which are being built by ‘beach house’ builder Peter Samson, of Christchurch, Dorset, was completed this week and the ‘show hut’ opens later this month", and the gallery to which I linked is Peter Samson's website. For all that the photos used in the article may be an attempt to rubbish the new style beach huts being sold at £40,000, the reality is that what's being sold is in the style of the gallery I linked to. Newspapers are good at implying untruths for dramatic effect.

spot;1398100 wrote: The "beach huts built for the 21st century springing up again along the British coast" your original Daily Mail link discussed was, to quote the Daily Mail, "The first of the huts, which are being built by ‘beach house’ builder Peter Samson, of Christchurch, Dorset, was completed this week and the ‘show hut’ opens later this month", and the gallery to which I linked is Peter Samson's website. For all that the photos used may be an attempt to rubbish the new style beach huts being sold at £40,000, the reality is that they're in the style of the gallery I linked to. Newspapers are good at implying untruths for dramatic effect.


I see your point... fair enough.

But where my parents had theirs, they are changing hands for an average of £17,000.

They are not any where like the new builds.

oscar;1398101 wrote: But where my parents had theirs, they are changing hands for an average of £17,000.

They are not any where like the new builds.Quite true. But then, neither are they "beach huts built for the 21st century". They are clapped out wrecks from the sixties, at a guess, and their value lies mainly in the site permission to have a beach hut there.

spot;1398102 wrote: Quite true. But then, neither are they "beach huts built for the 21st century". They are clapped out wrecks from the sixties, at a guess, and their value lies mainly in the site permission to have a beach hut there.


Clapped out wrecks Is a fair description but as I said In my OP, generations of our families children thought It was magical. My Mother did her best to get rid of the stench of stale sea air but they were dark and damp.

Yet, even now the clapped out wrecks still hold a demand.

oscar;1398107 wrote: Yet, even now the clapped out wrecks still hold a demand.Because the site permission allows them to be upgraded presumably, if the site's owned freehold. Even if it's not, if the lease still holds 50 years it could be worth erecting a 21st century style hut on the plot.

I don't own one of Peter Samson's 15x8 foot beach huts but if I did I'd be delighted to live in it permanently, it would suit me down to the ground. So long as it had an adequate Internet connection.

spot;1398110 wrote: Because the site permission allows them to be upgraded presumably, if the site's owned freehold. Even if it's not, if the lease still holds 50 years it could be worth erecting a 21st century style hut on the plot.

I don't own one of Peter Samson's 15x8 foot beach huts but if I did I'd be delighted to live in it permanently, it would suit me down to the ground. So long as it had an adequate Internet connection.


Most huts are sold Leasehold and Involve a ground rent to local councils but some are Freehold which Is reflected In the price. Leasehold around Brighton up to £17,000, Freehold up to £40,000