Ex-student turns his £6,500 digs chalet into a luxury £250,000 holiday home
A £6,500 holiday chalet in Whitsand Bay near Plymouth has been demolished to make way for a £250,000 luxury retreat.
Former Plymouth University student Adam Wooler bought the shack with views across the bay and replaced it with a holiday home that earns £100,000 a year in rent.
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Whitsand Bay
Adam bought the old timber building for £6,500 while he was a student, and has now demolished it to make way for the upgrade.
Adam and wife Katherine invested £100,000 in the cliff-top project which they let out as a holiday home.
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The property called The Edge has been hired by pop star Duffy.
Adam, 47, who runs a marine services business, told The Sun newspaper: "I worked as a lifeguard on the beach below and bought the leasehold for the chalet for £6,500 while I was at Plymouth University.
"It was nothing more than a wooden shack on a cliff with one room and an outside loo. It was three metres by two metres and nothing more than a shed.
"I lived in it for 18 months and nearly got blown away with it a few times.
"I left it as it was for 25 years and couldn’t really afford to do anything with it.
"It has only been the last 18 months that we managed to get the funding and planning permission in place to really do something with it."
Adam and Katherine, a 37-year-old garden designer, live in East Morden, near Poole, Dorset and hope to create another holiday home.
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by Sue002
Wednesday, February 27 2013, 3:11PM
“Oh this is one for C4 Grand Designs. Always thought this was a slightly unstable location. Might be wooosh and all gone over the edge.”
by ClaireRay
Friday, February 22 2013, 9:14AM
“Take a look at the image gallery here http://tinyurl.com/b6ey53j”
by micromarke
Friday, February 22 2013, 9:08AM
“So this is "NEWS". What rubbish.”
by PLYMFOX01
Thursday, February 21 2013, 9:53PM
“On a positive note, Whitsand Bay is a lovely place. My wife and I called there on Saturday on our way back from Mount Edgcumbe.”
by PLYMFOX01
Thursday, February 21 2013, 9:51PM
“Interesting but there obviously isnt a lot else happening in the Plymouth area today. Its stories like this that are used to fill the pages tell me that its inevitable more and more local papers will end up being published on a weekly basis instead of daily. (The one in Exeter for example has been for a while now).”
by MissAnthrope
Thursday, February 21 2013, 8:58PM
“Who is Duffy?”
by pamelafarrell
Thursday, February 21 2013, 4:18PM
“It was in The Daily Mail this morning.”
by lmmfao
Thursday, February 21 2013, 3:37PM
“Man buys new shed.”
by KevPlymouth
Thursday, February 21 2013, 3:34PM
“Nice photo to go with this "news event", its great that they have disguised the chalet to make it look like a rock”
by Devonview
Thursday, February 21 2013, 3:27PM
“Man builds small holiday home. This ought to be picked up by the nationals.”