Luxurious Lake District chalet comes with a £675,000 price tag (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Luxurious Lake District chalet comes with a £675,000 price tag
10:20am Thursday 10th May 2012 in Windermere
By Mike Addison, Assistant editor
Luxurious Lake District chalet comes with a £675,000 price tag
A LUXURY chalet on the shore of Windermere — described the UK’s most expensive holiday lodge — has been put up for sale at £675,000.
The wood-built structure at Bowness, is being sold for £125,000 more than the previous costliest lodge, which sold at Abersoch in Wales.
The Windermere lodge is the largest on the Fallbarrow Park site, boasting 1,144 sq ft of living space — more than a typical city apartment.
The sellers, South Lakeland Parks, described the lodge as the “closest you can get to the lake without actually being in it”. But the downside is that it cannot be lived in for six weeks of the year.
The owner, who is not allowed to use the lodge as a main residence, will also have to stump up an annual site licence fee of £6,000.
And the lodge can only be kept on the site for 50 years, after which it will have to be removed.
Looking directly out onto England’s largest lake, the luxury three-bedroom property has split level decking reaching the water’s edge. It is the last lakeshore lodge to be built on the Fallbarrow site.
It has a modern open plan kitchen, dining and living areas, which all have uninterrupted views from floor to ceiling doors onto the lake and stretching out to the Lake District fells.
The master bedroom has the same view from the king sized bed as well as having a spacious dressing room and en-suite wetroom with underfloor heating.
The sellers claim it is the most technically advanced of its kind available today and has been fitted with all the latest mod cons; from dial-in controlled lighting and heating to an integrated FM sound system that runs throughout the entire property.
Because of planning restrictions, the lodge can only be occupied between March 1 and January 14 every year.
Fallbarrow will hold an open day to market the lodge on May 26 and 27.
Comments(14)
blade stall
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3:13pm Thu 10 May 12
large floatation kits which lift the lodge as the water rises.!!
Ger-onimo
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4:28pm Thu 10 May 12
Roysyboy
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7:39pm Thu 10 May 12
lakesailor
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8:00pm Thu 10 May 12
Moonbase
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7:50am Fri 11 May 12
life cycle too
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11:39am Fri 11 May 12
Roysyboy wrote:Do socialist millionaires not desire waterfront properties then?
Okay for Tory parasites who can afford such prices!
What do they spend THEIR money on?
FrontalLobe
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7:20pm Fri 11 May 12
lakesailor wrote:I think you may be being a little hard on Rosyboy. I know everyone has the right to spend their money however they wish. However it is hardly surprising that what seems like a hugely inflated price for a large wooden structure, albeit on the lake shore would cause some resentment at a time such as this with many struggling to pay the tehir way or find anywhere to live at all.
Are you a throwback to the '70s?
FrontalLobe
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7:21pm Fri 11 May 12
exiled_to_stoke
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9:55am Sun 13 May 12
The cost of this lodge to its new owners will be a minimum of £19,500 per year (£13,500 per year over the maximum 50 years, plus site fees of £6,000 per year).
The minimum wage works out at just over £12,600 per year (gross) if you are lucky enough to get a 40 hour week, year round. Gross weekly pay for 50% of the population is £21,000 or less.
Thus, someone is going to spend more per year on a holiday chalet than nearly half of the population earn.
Perhaps there is a need for some wealth redistribution?
lakesailor
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3:02pm Sun 13 May 12
FrontalLobe wrote:My point is that Roysboy seems to have the "Power to the People" attitude of Wolfie Smith that anyone who has available money is a Conservative.
lakesailor wrote:I think you may be being a little hard on Rosyboy. I know everyone has the right to spend their money however they wish. However it is hardly surprising that what seems like a hugely inflated price for a large wooden structure, albeit on the lake shore would cause some resentment at a time such as this with many struggling to pay the tehir way or find anywhere to live at all.
Are you a throwback to the '70s?
Perhaps the many Conservatives without jobs or homes would like to put him right.
Me, I am apolitical. Don't have any money either.
FrontalLobe
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7:21pm Sun 13 May 12
lakesailor wrote:Yes, fair point. However as 'exiled to stoke' says above there are moral implications about how wealth is distributed. Of course when most of us are fairly comfortably off and the economy is doing well it matters less to people and iniquities in the system go largely uncommented upon. It is at times like this that some basic assumptions start to be questioned. Although left-of-centre on most things myself I still believe strongly that in most cases people should have a large amount of freedom over their own resources. However we cannot escape the fact that we live in a society (whatever Thatcher thought) and owe a duty of care to each other. There is a serious housing shortage in this country and this kind of thing throws the suffering of the unfortunate (and most are unfortunate and not simply feckless) into stark relief. I know that the buying and selling of wooden holiday huts probably has little effect on the overall situation but along with the gross greed of bankers and others does reveal the fact that we are most certainly not 'all in it together'.
FrontalLobe wrote:My point is that Roysboy seems to have the "Power to the People" attitude of Wolfie Smith that anyone who has available money is a Conservative.
lakesailor wrote:I think you may be being a little hard on Rosyboy. I know everyone has the right to spend their money however they wish. However it is hardly surprising that what seems like a hugely inflated price for a large wooden structure, albeit on the lake shore would cause some resentment at a time such as this with many struggling to pay the tehir way or find anywhere to live at all.
Are you a throwback to the '70s?
Perhaps the many Conservatives without jobs or homes would like to put him right.
Me, I am apolitical. Don't have any money either.
life cycle too
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10:29pm Sun 13 May 12
exiled_to_stoke wrote:Surely they ARE redistributing some of that wealth... to the operators of the Fallbarrow Park - so we should be asking what they intend to do with it?
Although we live in a free country, and people can spend their money however they wish, I still find it offensive that a small proportion of the population have sufficient wealth to be able to afford such luxuries whilst the majority of the population battle through every day scrimping and saving.
The cost of this lodge to its new owners will be a minimum of £19,500 per year (£13,500 per year over the maximum 50 years, plus site fees of £6,000 per year).
The minimum wage works out at just over £12,600 per year (gross) if you are lucky enough to get a 40 hour week, year round. Gross weekly pay for 50% of the population is £21,000 or less.
Thus, someone is going to spend more per year on a holiday chalet than nearly half of the population earn.
Perhaps there is a need for some wealth redistribution?
At a guess, they employ a number of people, and provide a facility where others can stay, and hopefully clients and staff spend money at other local shops and facilities.
nixon1
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3:20pm Tue 15 May 12
life cycle too wrote:good point
exiled_to_stoke wrote: Although we live in a free country, and people can spend their money however they wish, I still find it offensive that a small proportion of the population have sufficient wealth to be able to afford such luxuries whilst the majority of the population battle through every day scrimping and saving. The cost of this lodge to its new owners will be a minimum of £19,500 per year (£13,500 per year over the maximum 50 years, plus site fees of £6,000 per year). The minimum wage works out at just over £12,600 per year (gross) if you are lucky enough to get a 40 hour week, year round. Gross weekly pay for 50% of the population is £21,000 or less. Thus, someone is going to spend more per year on a holiday chalet than nearly half of the population earn. Perhaps there is a need for some wealth redistribution?Surely they ARE redistributing some of that wealth... to the operators of the Fallbarrow Park - so we should be asking what they intend to do with it? At a guess, they employ a number of people, and provide a facility where others can stay, and hopefully clients and staff spend money at other local shops and facilities.
suziedevon says...
2:31pm Thu 10 May 12