At £1,450 a week, the beach huts with bathrooms and woodburners
TRADITIONALLY, beach huts are bijou affairs, barely big enough to swing a bucket and spade in.
But not these beauties, which cost £1,450 a week to rent and come with the sort of mod cons you would normally find in an upmarket holiday home.
The two huts have been built on Lepe Beach in Hampshire, looking out to the Isle of Wight.
At a spacious 23ft by 12ft, they can accommodate five people in a mezzanine sleeping level.
They come with a fully-equipped kitchen area, a bathroom with shower and toilet and even a wood-burner in the living area, while power is provided by solar panels. A spokesman for New Forest Escapes, which is letting the huts, Gullwing and Little Tern, said: ‘These are the biggest and most luxurious beach huts in Britain.
‘You can literally throw a stone from the hut into the sea. There’s quite simply nothing like this.’
They were built by Pete Samson, of Ecologic Developments, which specialises in luxury beach huts.
Mr Samson, 37, said: ‘These are the biggest and most luxurious beach huts we have ever built.’
The UK’s first public beach huts were built in 1909 – and there are now 20,000 privately owned ones.