Lower Hopton Working Men's Club, on North Street, put up the shelter to accommodate smokers following the smoking ban in July.

But Derek Brown, who lives behind the club on South Street, said he can't sit in his garden because the shelter is like a beer garden where people sit outside drinking and using bad language.

He said: "The more beer they get the louder it gets. We have been here 47 years but it's taken all our pleasure away.

"You can't call it a smoke shelter at that size."

He said he and his wife Mary decided to grow a hedge to stop people in the club's upstairs games room looking into their house but now the club had 'gone too far'.

He said: "A smoke shelter is usually about five feet by seven feet but this is about 45 feet by 30 feet by nine feet tall.

"They told us it was going to be a smoking room. It looks very well but it's the biggest smoking area you've ever seen in your life.

"It's like having a lot of people looking into your garden. We've put trees in to disguise it but the noise is coming over."

Neighbour John Binks said: "They've put up a fence on the outside of my garden wall. I don't think it'll help with the noise and privacy.

"I would have put one there myself if I wanted a fence up."

A council spokesperson said no planning application had been received for the shelter and an enforcement officer would be making a site visit.

No-one at the club was available for a comment when contacted by the Reporter this week.