For many children, all it takes to have their dream playhouse are some boxes, a blanket or two and a boundless imagination.

But for those who want their dreams to become a reality it takes something extra – around £6,500. That was the sum paid for this Wendy house by an anonymous buyer.And while the mock-Tudor, one-bedroom property is enticing for those looking to downsize, the sales particulars warn: ‘The Wendy house is only suitable for small children as it has very restricted headroom, but it is possible for an adult to squeeze inside when crouched down.’The 102 sq ft, two-storey house comes with twin beds, lights and a working sink which is ready to be hooked up to a water supply. For further comfort there are armchairs and a scaled-down grandfather clock.Vendors Brian and Pamela McDonough, both 69, bought the cottage 11 years ago for their granddaughters but have sold it because they are grown up. They had bought it from Clive Hunter and his wife Ava, who had built it in 1988 by for their daughter.The McDonoughs, from Shrivenham in Oxfordshire, had the property re-thatched, repainted and re-glazed at a cost of £2,500 before putting the Wendy house on the market.The playhouse was advertised as ‘fully furnished’ by Cotswold estate agents Perry Bishop and Chambers, who told yesterday how it had attracted interest around the world.Sarah Benson, from the agents, added: ‘My own 26-year-old son even enquired about it. He wanted me to buy it and put it in the garden for him and his girlfriend to live in.’The timber house sits on reinforced steel beams and will now be transported to the ‘wealthy’ individual’s home in the North East.While this playhouse might be the most recent posh Wendy house, it is by no means the most expensive. In January 2011 a millionaire ordered the construction of a playhouse for his children that cost £150,000 - almost as much as the average house in England and Wales.The two-storey timber playhouse has double glazing, solid pine flooring with underfloor heating, a TV and a stone chimney, and was eventually flown to Switzerland.Ten craftsmen spent a total of 2,000 hours over five weeks building the play house, which has a 18ft by 15ft footprint, is 12ft tall and is made from 13,000ft of sandblasted pine wood planks.The extravagant interior took a further ten days to fit and is so well insulated that the anonymous businessman's children will remain snug even in sub-zero Swiss temperatures.Around £100,000 was spent on materials, construction and other costs, while up to £50,000 went on shipping the play house to Switzerland.Another series of Wendy houses, built in October 2011 might actually suit most first-time buyers, and was sold for £55,000 in Liverpool.The 12ft by 10ft Wendy house was constructed by Rainbow Play Systems in Surrey, who constructed a few of the houses based on orders from clients and featured two floors, a kitchen, underfloor heating an a reception room.The company claimed that for what clients were getting they were the most expensive play houses readily available on the market.The clients were mostly intended to be investment bankers and footballers, who would buy the houses for their children, and were intended to be useful even after the children had grown up, with suggestions that they might be good as an office or wine cellar.(dailymail.co.uk)ANN.Az