Beach hut in Dorset on sale for £440,000 – but it has a shared toilet and no mains electricity

This beautiful seaside hut doesn’t come low-cost (Image: BNPS)

For those who’ve obtained £440,000 burning a gap in your pocket you’ve obtained some choices.

You would purchase a five-bed indifferent home in Rothwell, Northamptonshire – with change to spare. Or, how about this three-bed masionette in Bristol?

Alternatively, you possibly can snap up this humble seaside hut for a similar value, that has no mains electrical energy and a communal bathroom.

The picket cabin is on the unique Mudeford sandbank in Christchurch Harbour, Dorset, and has wonderful sea views in direction of the Isle of Wight.

Automobiles are banned from the strip of land which is simply accessible by a 20 minute stroll, a experience on a land practice or a brief ferry journey throughout the harbour.

However whereas it may be set in a shocking location, it does have some faults.

You possibly can stroll proper out onto the seaside (Image: Denisons/BNPS)

The property, Hut 297, has no personal bathroom or mains electrical energy. The brand new house owners must share a communal bathroom and bathe block with different hut house owners.

Nevertheless, the hut is surprisingly roomy. It will probably sleep as much as eight individuals.

It does have photo voltaic panels on the roof to supply some electrical energy and a full-size cooker linked to a gasoline bottle.

There's additionally a 100-litre water tank with heater for working water and it has double glazed doorways and home windows.

The hut has a totally fitted kitchen, a front room space with seating that converts into additional beds and a mezzanine stage that may sleep 5.

The mezzanine stage that may sleep 5 (Image: Denisons/BNPS)

In entrance it has a small deck that leads immediately onto the sandy seaside and there may be storage beneath the hut.

Hut 297 has been owned by the identical household since they purchased it off the native council within the Seventies or ’80s for a 4 determine sum.

Since then costs for the 360 seaside cabins on the distant sandy peninsula have soared in worth.

The house owners initially purchased it for a 4 determine sum (Image: Denisons/BNPS)

In 2002 they had been promoting for £70,000. By 2005 they had been as much as £135,000 after which £270,000 by 2014. In 2020 they had been value about £350,000.

Andrew Denison, of property brokers Denisons, which is promoting the hut, stated he doesn’t count on it to hold round for lengthy.

He stated: ‘We now have a retained listing of potential consumers and have had curiosity in it already.

It’s more likely to be snapped up rapidly (Credit: Denisons/BNPS)

‘The huts which have come available on the market this 12 months have bought rapidly and I don’t think about this one will grasp round for too lengthy.

‘It's in actually good order and is in a pleasant location, going through the seaside and the ocean.

‘A seaside hut at Mudeford isn’t a seasonal buy. Individuals purchase all of them 12 months spherical and look forward for staycation holidays.”

In addition to paying out the asking value, the brand new house owners may also should stump up about £4,500 a 12 months to the native council in charges.