Beach hut in UK’s 'poshest' seaside town sells for insane £485k

The hut costs much than a four-bedroom location successful a neighbouring municipality (Image: SWNS)

Sandbanks in  Dorset is location to Harry Redknapp, Jamie Redknapp and Rick Stein, among different celebrated faces drawn by its beauteous Jurassic coastline, long sandy beaches and unsocial architecture.

Redknapp's art-deco seafront location is worthy a whopping £12,000,000 - but the precocious spot prices don't halt astatine ceramic and mortar builds successful this UK seaside municipality - often dubbed 1 of the poshest successful Britain.

A traditional-looking woody formation hut connected Mudeford Sandbank, covering 20m², has been sold by Denisons Estate Agents for an eyewatering £485,000 - and other, akin huts person been snapped up for astir the aforesaid price, with 2 connected the agelong of Dorset seashore selling for supra £400,000 earlier this year.

This hut does person much to connection than meets the eye, with its two-storey build, star sheet and wrong toilet possibly the crushed wherefore it was sold wrong 24 hours of going connected the market. The bulk of its counterparts don't person moving water, a toilet, oregon gas, aft all.

Sandbanks is location to a fistful of celebrities including Harry Redknapp (Image: Getty)

While its pricetag mightiness not look rather truthful unreasonable fixed that homes successful Sandbanks mean £2,079,063 implicit the past 12 months, the humble hut is, shockingly, much costly than a four-bedroom location successful adjacent Christchurch, which acceptable buyers backmost astir £450,024 past year.

In its defence, the £485k formation hut tin slumber betwixt six and 8 people, according to Denisons, though however this would enactment logistically with 1 furniture and minimal sofa abstraction is near to the imagination.

And there's different large drawback - owners are lone allowed to slumber successful their formation huts for fractional the twelvemonth and indispensable supply Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council with a licence if they privation to enactment implicit betwixt March 1 and October 31.

Jamie Smith, 38, has been documenting the huts and says prices person skyrocketed since helium moved to the country 5 years ago.

"They are conscionable sheds, let's beryllium honest!" helium said.

"The crushed they are truthful fashionable is due to the fact that of their location. Since I've lived here, the archetypal merchantability was astir £300k which I thought was ludicrous and they've conscionable changeable up.

"From what I've learned, this is 1 of the astir costly places to bargain formation huts. They look each close connected the wrong but there's ever bits of overgarment missing and you person the saltwater, oversea aerial and the wind.

"For these prices, you could get a beauteous location successful the Bournemouth and Poole area."

The 38-year-old did, however, suggest that the woody builts could beryllium a bully semipermanent concern if marketed arsenic quirky Airbnbs.