Builders create £250,000 pooch pad in Gloucestershire

Two Great Danes will soon be living in the yap of luxury as builders get to work on a £250,000 bespoke kennel featuring a spa, day lounge and a plasma television.

The luxury doghouse is being built on the exclusive Lower Mill Estate in Cirencester in Gloucestershire at the request of a dog-loving female surgeon.

Inside, the spoilt pooches will sleep on sheepskin-lined, temperature-controlled beds, relax in a spa, howl along to a £150,000 sound system and watch Lady and the Tramp on a 52-inch plasma.

Each dog will have its own bedroom with large windows that overlook a specially-designed playground, monitored by CCTV.

A retina scanner will keep any mangy strays out of the doghouse, which is also climate-controlled.

While the budget did not stretch as far as a private canine chef, the hounds will have automated food and water dispensers and self-cleaning eating and drinking bowls.

The kennel has been designed by architect Andy Ramus and will be built from zinc, glass and limestone and be about a quarter of the size of the main £1.4m three-bedroom home.

Estate owner Jeremy Paxton told Daily Mail: “It’s a very interesting house with fabulous architecture and unusual requirements.

“There’s even a spa bath with a saline treatment built in because it’s good for their coats.”