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A sheep farmer has lost out on buying a dilapidated shepherd s hut to a wealthy Londoner, who paid £16,000 to use it as a quirky bolthole.
At just 8ft high, 9ft wide and 6ft deep the wooden hut with a leaky roof and rot might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you imagine a relaxing retreat.
But despite being in desperate need of restoration the hut, that has been sitting on land in Shaftesbury, Dorset, for 50 years, sold for 20 times its £800 estimate at Charterhouse Auctioneers of Sherborne, Dorset.
The anonymous London-based buyer who secured the run-down Victorian contraption saw off competition from a terribly disappointed Dorset shepherd who hoped to use it for its traditional purpose.
Shepherd shorn of hut after wealthy Londoner outbids him by £8,000
1 June 2021 • 7:04pm
Unsurpassed potential: The 8ft high, 9ft wide, 6ft deep wooden hut is covered in rot and has a leaky roof
Credit: BNPS
The traditional shepherd’s hut is now something you are more likely to see in festival fields than on farms.
But the recent trend to convert them into luxurious glamping sites has left one shepherd out in the cold after a wealthy Londoner gazumped his offer to buy one at auction, spending £16,000 to get a slice of rural life.
The Dorset-based herder, desperate to carry on the 400-year-old practice, was left “terribly disappointed” after his bid for the hut was outmatched by £8,000.
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