At last, homebuyers can live out their childhood fantasy of living in a treehouse as a woodland retreat comes on to the market for £2m – complete with a swing and a slide.
Three award-winning treehouses are nestled in nine acres of Dorset woodland and four acres of meadow.
Carpenter Guy Mallinson began creating this “magical woodland” more than a decade ago. Built to rent out, the eponymous retreat is complete with hot tubs, saunas, pizza ovens and barbecues.
All three properties, and the surrounding land, are for sale as one with a guide price of £2m+.
Mallinson’s Woodland Retreat currently operates as a business, offering customers a sanctuary in the countryside for a minimum of £495 a night or £1,485 for a weekend.
Holditch, in Dorset, is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is just 10 miles from the dramatic Jurassic coastline.
The original Woodman’s Treehouse was created in 2016 and is “perched high in the branches of an ancient oak”. It boasts a rooftop sauna and hot tub, as well as a revolving wood-burner and tree shower.
It also has a slide down to the woodland floor for when you’re feeling full of childlike playfulness (the retreat is currently for grown-ups only). It also has a two-person swing.
In 2020, two more treehouses were added to the woodland resort. The Pinwheel Treehouse sits in a corner of a bluebell wood and its glass-topped rooms means you really can sleep among the trees.
It has previously featured in George Clark’s Amazing Spaces and Grand Designs House of the Year, as well as winning two awards with the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Meanwhile five nights in the Dazzle Wheelhouse will currently cost you roughly £1,500.
Included in the purchase is the woodland’s social media following – some 48,000 on Instagram for instance.
This may present a perfect opportunity for wildlife lovers as “sustainability is at the heart of the design and construction,” according to the website.
The land has a pond, fed by woodland springs, habitat log piles and untouched areas of the forest, to encourage growth.
Mr Mallison was previously based in Fulham, where his firm Mallinson Ltd worked on architectural installations such as Walt Disney’s London headquarters.
He moved to Dorset with his family, wanting to raise his children in the countryside. This led to him realising his “long-standing dream” of building a treehouse.
But now, “looking ahead, having gained planning permission for give new treehouses to replace the old glamping tents, the time has come to find a new owner of the woods and business to write the next chapter”.
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