Ramsay pays £4m for stopgap holiday home
MOST homeowners waiting for building work to be completed would be content to spend a few days in a cheap hotel.
Not Gordon Ramsay, who has spent £4 million on a ‘stopgap’ home while his holiday retreat is being rebuilt.
The potty-mouthed chef caused outrage among residents in the Cornish village of Rock with his plans to bulldoze a Twenties house and replace it with a mansion.
But rather than wait for the multi- million-pound home to be finished, he has splashed out on a different house two miles away. His latest one has six bedrooms, four bathrooms, three reception rooms, a swimming pool, tennis court and almost 2.5 acres of land.
Local estate agents praised the ‘prime waterfront’ position of the property, which Ramsay bought last December, according to Land Registry documents.
It backs on to the beautiful sandy bay in an area known as Kensingtonon-Sea because of its abundance of wealthy second home-owners. The luxury pile will act as a coastal
bolthole while builders replace the home that Ramsay, 50, and wife Tana, 42, bought two years ago.
It means the couple, who have four children, were buyers of two of Cornwall’s most expensive houses in 2015 and 2016 — and paid around £1.1 million in stamp duty.
The new mansion will have two kitchens, a swimming pool, a wine cellar and four en suite bathrooms — just 100 yards from the beach.
Ramsay said: ‘The family loves spending time in Cornwall. While the Rock property is under longterm renovation we wanted to call somewhere else home.’