Amazing Spaces woodland cabin

The Amazing Spaces woodland cabin was originally built by a team from William Hardie Designs after an idea by architect and innovative design aficionado George Clarke.  It provides complete privacy in our ancient woodland, and has a wood fired hot tub! The build was filmed throughout, and used local resources and timber harvested from our ancient coppice woodland. It was shown on the third series of the Channel 4 programme George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.

The Cabin now

We have  made substantial  changes to the cabin since then. It has tripled in size, as although the small space with hidden furniture worked well for TV, on a practical level it just didn’t! We have created a separate bedroom and doubled the size of the living room, creating an open plan kitchen/diner/sitting room.  The last remaining  winch down wall  was fun  but  required lots of elbow grease, has now  been upgraded to a permanent deck with glass doors leading  onto it, meaning you get all the benefits of the light and the space without the effort!

The sitting room end has a comfy double leather sofa bed with red velvet curtains you can pull across making another cosy bedroom.  The bedroom has a triple sleeper  (double bed at the bottom, single on top)  so that if you’re travelling as a family you can put the kids to bed and have a bit of adult time at the end of the evening. If you’re a couple it means you have a separate room and won’t have to use the sofa bed.    For cooking there is a gas oven with a hob plus you can get a pan on top of the wood burner.  The door from the living room goes out onto the covered deck with armchairs and a fire brazier, so you can sit round the fire even if the weather is not on your side!

The wood burner inside makes the whole space really warm and cosy all year. The Cabin is fully equipped for five people; pots, pans, enamel plates etc, cutlery and proper wine glasses!  There is also a large cool box which I will give you ice packs for on your arrival.

The outside space is why you’re really here; within the clearing is a fire pit surrounded by oak seats and table with a grill and tripod and dutch oven. Nestled into the hazel coppice is the large wood fired  larch hot tub which can easily fit 5 people, right next to this is a large out door hot shower  and hand basin. Together with the composting loo made out of George’s favourite ‘wiggly tin’ you are self-sufficient in your den in the woods.