Welcome to the house of fun! Parents spend £840,000 to create playground home for their children with hidden doorways and secret chambers

A couple have created a 'giant toy box' of a home for themselves and their three children complete with secret dens, 'Scooby Doo' revolving doors and fireman's poles.

Matt and Sophie White, who work in London, decided to escape the capital to raise their two daughters and a son and bought a Grade II listed gamekeeper's lodge with surrounding land in Horsham, Sussex, for £750,000.

Architect Matt then designed a giant steel-framed, timber-clad barn to attach to the original property which they have filled with quirky elements to create a 'family house of fun'.

Matt said that was their aim.

'The important thing was to create a great family house,' he said.

Kevin said of what they have achieved: 'This house wasn't designed by an architect, it was designed by an architect, his wife and his kids.

'None of us go to our graves remembering all the great emails we sent but as we get older we look back with fond remembrance on good times.

'This place isn't just a house of fun, it is a machine for making those kind of memories in.'