We really DO like to be beside the seaside! Britain's most expensive beach hut that can sleep six but has no electricity or toilet sells for a record £295,000 (15 Pics)

The wooden cabin is on the exclusive Mudeford Spit in Christchurch, Dorset, home to many expensive huts

The latest sale of Hut 413 broke the record of £280,000 for a hut at the same location sold last summer

The luxury cabin has views towards the Isle of Wight and has running water, solar panels and a freezer

But the new owners will have to use a communal block for toilets and showers and have no mains electricity

Last summer a beach hut went on the market for a record £280,000, but Hut 413 has now smashed that figure with £295,000, at a price which could buy a six-bedroom detached town house elsewhere in the country

Unlike many of the huts at Mudeford, this hut does have running water in the kitchen, provided from a standpipe and heated by a gas hot water cylinder. But for shower and toilet facilities the new owners will have to go to the nearby communal block

Hut 413 has a mezzanine floor that currently sleeps three people but could sleep four and the sofa pulls out into a double bed. There is also space for a dining table and four chairs

Lighting is provided by solar panels on the roof, the full-size domestic oven runs on Calor gas bottles and there is a solar-powered fridge freezer

Britain's most expensive beach hut cabin is on the exclusive Mudeford Spit in Christchurch, Dorset, which is home to the most costly beach huts in the country

The record sum is largely down to the hut's stunning location on the desirable sandbank, set just yards from the water's edge

As well as the eye-watering purchase price, the new owners will also have to pay annual rates to Christchurch Borough Council of about £500 and a licence fee of about £4,500 a year

The beach hut has spectacular and uninterrupted views across Christchurch Bay towards the Isle of Wight and the Needles

Owners rent the huts out for more than £1,000 a week in the summer with guests happy to pay the money to stay at the luxurious beach resort

Hut 78, which has similar features, pushed the record sale up to £280,000 in July last year, but hut 413 has now surpassed the record with £295,000

As well as the eye-watering purchase price, the new owners will also have to pay annual rates to Christchurch Borough Council of about £500 and a licence fee of about £4,500 a year

The huts rarely come on the market and generally sell very quickly. Owners can only sleep in the huts from March to October but can visit any time of year

A partner at the estate agents said the beach huts at Mudeford Spit were unusual because owners could sleep in them 

The sandbank, which can only be accessed by a 20-minute walk, novelty land train or by ferry, has about 350 beach huts, some of which have been in the same family for decades

The same money that bought the beach hut could buy a variety of properties across the country, ranging from small flats above a shop in London to luxurious town houses in the North