Over the past decade a succession of architects have designed holiday homes among the fisherman's huts in the shadow of a nuclear power station on Dungeness beach, Kent. Here are seven of the most interesting.

Black Rubber Beach House by Simon Conder Associates, 2003
Simon Conder Associates wrapped a fisherman's hut built in the the 1930s with rubber to create the Black Rubber Beach House on Dungeness's shingle beach. The studio also rebuilt all of the building's walls from spruce plywood and placed a bathroom in a room that cantilevers over the beach.
According to architect Simon Conder, the house "shows that it is possible to design a building in the context of the bodged 'squatter architecture' that typifies Dungeness beach".

Shingle House by NORD Architecture, 2010 NORD Architecture's Shingle House was the second holiday home built as part of Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project, following the Balancing Barn by MVRDV and Mole Architects.
The rental property, which can sleep eight people, is clad in tarred black shingles with interiors complete with white-painted wooden panels.

El Ray by Simon Conder Associates, 2013
The El Ray beach house is built around a 19th-century railway carriage, which the family that own the property used to live in.
The railway carriage now contains the house's kitchen and sits at the centre of the main living space within the timber building.

Pobble House by Guy Hollaway, 2014
Named after the Kentish word for pebb...