Tag: seaside

  • Seafair – The Hurricane Hut

    Seafair – The Hurricane Hut

    The last great Newport ‘cottage’ heads into its second year on the market (more…)

  • A maze-like mansion: Villa Cielo de Bonaire

    A maze-like mansion: Villa Cielo de Bonaire

    Cielo de Bonaire: A vast £39 million villa that has failed to sell in three years that truly must have been built with a dictator or drug dealer in mind (more…)

  • Britain’s Detroit?

    Britain’s Detroit?

    Could the most deprived area in Britain be the place to invest?

     

    The city of Detroit has long been a no-go area and its decline from an automotive giant to a capital of deprivation has been well documented. Britain’s equivalent is a small seaside village named Jaywick, near Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. (more…)

  • Ecstasy and Babycham

    Ecstasy and Babycham

    A marine residence with a history tied to the Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy, the Special Operations Executive and Babycham

     

    The House on the Shore on Thorns Beach at Beaulieu in Hampshire is a home that wouldn’t look out of place in the Hamptons or Rhode Island. Dramatically situated next to the Solent waters to the north of the Isle of Wight, this suitably named building wouldn’t have been out of place in the 1980s BBC series Howards’ Way. It could. Indeed, have been an ideal home for Gerald and Polly Urquhart. (more…)