Suitable Age Groups
Village Hut with Hatch Opening
Open the doors to endless imaginative play with the ESP Village Hut with Hatch Opening, a charming outdoor role play hut for early years settings, nurseries and toddler areas in play parks. With its grass-topped roof, opening hatch and serving counter, it becomes whatever children imagine: a shop, café, post office, ticket booth or village bakery.
Where Imagination Takes the Lead
Children swing open the hatch doors and set up shop at the serving counter, taking orders, selling goods and welcoming customers. Shelves below hold play food, pots and props, while the chalkboard panel lets them write menus, prices or signs. Each game is different, led by children's own ideas and stories.
Building Communication and Language Skills
Role play is one of the most powerful ways to develop early communication and language. Serving customers, taking turns, asking questions and acting out everyday situations help children build vocabulary, listening and speaking skills, and the confidence to express themselves. The hut also supports personal, social and emotional development as children cooperate, share and negotiate roles. Mark-making on the chalkboard encourages early literacy.
Perfect for Nurseries and Play Parks
Its welcoming, toddler-friendly scale makes the Village Hut ideal for early years outdoor areas and for the under-5s zones of public play parks. The open hatch keeps sightlines clear for parents, carers and staff.
Natural Timber with a Living Look
Quality timber construction and a grass-effect roof give the hut a warm, natural, village-style look that blends beautifully into gardens, nursery grounds and parks. It's built for daily outdoor use in all weathers.
Key Features
Opening hatch doors and serving counterChalkboard and signboard for mark-makingShelves for play food, props and resourcesSupports communication, language and social developmentToddler-friendly scale for nurseries and play parksNatural timber with a grass-effect roof
Bring the village to life in your outdoor space with the ESP Village Hut with Hatch Opening, the role play hut where every visit tells a new story.
SKU: IF100
Material Specifications
Laminated Timber
Glulam redwood timber poles provide exceptional strength, have a greater resistance to splitting, and offer a high quality smooth finish.
Sawn Timber
Sawn redwood timber from FSC sustainable sources, all pressure treated to class 4 after all manufacturing processes have been completed.
Quality Steel Fixings
All nuts, bolts, screws and brackets are zinc plated or stainless steel to prevent against corrosion and to ensure longevity and safety.
Steel Cored Ropes
Colourful steel cored polypropylene ropes are used to ensure safety, durability, and vandal resistance.
Anti-slip Panels
Colourful steel cored polypropylene ropes are used to ensure safety, durability, and vandal resistance.
HDPE Panels
High Density Polyethylene panel are highly durable and vandal resistant. The multicolored panels allow for intricate designs to be routed for additional play value.
Handholds
Large size professional handholds made from resin bound sand with stainless steel threaded inserts and anti-spin secondary fixing point.
Timber Paint
A high quality, satin finish, oil-based wood stain that is child-friendly and won’t stain clothes or peel away from the timber.
Painted Steelwork
Steelwork is either aluminium or galvanised mild steel and is treated and primed prior to receiving a vibrant painted finish.
Product Labels
Aluminium labels are affixed to all our equipment at quality control stage prior to dispatch. Each label contains our details, the product ID, and year of manufacture.
FSC Sourced Timber
We only use timber that has been responsibly sourced from managed forests with the FSC accreditation.
Timber Treatment
We pressure treat all our timber with Tanalith E wood preservative after all of our manufacturing processes are complete to class 4 which prevents against all forms of wood decay and insect attack.
| Free Fall Height | N/A |
| Minimum Surfacing Area | N/A |
| Minimum Space Required | 1.73m x 2.0m |
| Dimension of Largest Part | N/A |
| Mass of Heaviest Part (Kg) | N/A |
| Wheelchair Accessible | N/A |
| Spare Part Availability | N/A |
| Min persons required for assembly | N/A |
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