West Bay Dorset seafront homes - one with celebrity resident

The picture above shows some beach-side bungalows in the west Dorset resort and a depiction of an iconic home near the bay's famous East Cliff, which is known as 'the pink house'.

This particular beach-side home was owned by the late film director Stanley Kubrick, who is famed for directing classics such as The Shining, A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Stanley Kubrick Cottages were built on East Beach a few years after the harbour opened.

These include the 18th century pink house.

With the huge honey-hued East Cliff rising behind it, the home has been immortalised on canvas many a time by local artists, including this painting by West Country artist David Inshaw.

David Inshaw's painting of the Pink House (Image: David Inshaw) This artwork by Barbara Green also depicts the iconic home.

Pink house by shingle by Barbara Green (Image: Barbara Green) But that's not the only claim to fame this dwelling suitable for Barbie herself has.

It is reported that Oscar winner Kate Winslet stayed at the pink house when she was filming Ammonite in nearby Lyme Regis.

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Winslet, who depicted Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning in the film, told US TV about her experience in the three-storey home. 

She said: "It was so isolated, cold and rattly that when there was a big storm, the waves would hit the windows of the house and the power would go down."

Kate Winslet filming Ammonite in Lyme (Image: Graham Hunt Photography) Another Dorset link to filmmaker Kubrick is his movie Barry Lyndon, 1975, which had its first scene shot in the county. 

It starred Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson and Patrick Magee and was filmed at both Compton Acres and Canford Cliffs.

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Barry sees the beautiful - and wealthy - Countess of Lyndon and her ailing husband in the Italian Garden at Compton Acres in Poole. 

The Italian Garden, Compton Acres (Image: Compton Acres)

Meanwhile, back in West Bay, by the time the new harbour was built, it was separated from the town by a flood plain.

There were no roads running over the plain, only hundreds of rough tracks. The only buildings near the harbour were a few grouped around the Bridport Arms.

This picture below of bungalows on the seafront at West Beach dates back to the 1920s. 

Bungalows on the seafront at West Bay (Image: Supplied) It was used as a postcard and one particular missive with the image is dated September 22, 1923.

Here's another lovely old Claud Hider image of the bungalows.

Bungalows at West Bay (Image: Claud Hider)