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It’s the Great British Sell-Off – Prue Leith has put her Cotswolds manor house on the market for £10 million. The celebrity chef has lived at Chastleton Glebe, Gloucestershire, since 1972, and she previously wanted to keep the honey-coloured Georgian building in the family. But the property – complete with its own lake, panoramic views … Read more
North Yorkshire’s Ryedale, the Sevenoaks area in Kent and Herefordshire have seen house sales rise by as much as 63 per cent compared to a year ago, according to new research. These countryside locations have been boosted by lockdown demand for increased indoor and outdoor space amid the persistent pandemic. Property website Zoopla looked at … Read more
Everywhere I look, I interrupt a wedding planning meeting. I’ve lost my partner and three-year-old daughter in The Manor House hotel in Wiltshire shortly after arriving and in every room and corridor on the ground floor I search I discover a beaming couple having a nuptials pow-wow with hotel staff. I can’t blame them. For … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: Lord of the Rings star Liv Tyler is back at her Cotswolds family home – but has her love life with football agent fiance Dave Gardner hit a rocky spell? By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:05 BST, 18 October 2020 | Updated: … Read more
Dominic West, 50, is being driven nuts by squirrels at the same Cotswolds country home he put on a show of unity with his wife after being caught kissing Lily James, 31 By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 11:03 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 11:16 BST, 16 October 2020 Dominic West is being driven … Read more
Furious locals have fly-tipped outside Tim Burton’s £2.9million Cotswolds home amid a row over a wooden fence the Hollywood director erected around his property. Multi-millionaire filmmaker Burton, 62, moved into the Grade-II-listed 18th-century Mill House with his partner at the time, Helena Bonham Carter, in 2008. But a row with locals started earlier this year … Read more
David and Victoria Beckham have started digging a lake at their £6 million Cotswolds home after winning a planning war with their neighbours. Despite protests from residents, West Oxfordshire district council gave the couple permission to create a kidney-shaped water feature on their home in August. The Beckham family’s building pans had previously been blocked … Read more
‘Look! It’s the BBC breakfast man who went on Strictly!’ cried my daughter Evie, as we were shown to our seats in the formal dining room. ‘No, darling,’ I whispered. ‘It’s JFK.’ Fancy hotel trips with the children in tow usually require some form of discreet distraction at the dinner table. Fiona checked into The Slaughters … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK AGENT SONYA by Ben Macintyre (Viking £25, 416 pp) Her scones were the envy of the Oxfordshire hamlet of Great Rollright, where the friendly woman known as Mrs Burton lived in a stone farmhouse. In her late 30s, she moved there with her three children and husband Len just after the … Read more
George Clarke investigated the unique home of a fellow architect at Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds in National Trust Unlocked. In last night’s episode of the Channel 4 show, the presenter took viewers on a tour of the 16th century manor house, which is a treasure trove of more than 22,000 curiosities collected from all around the … Read more