Just a tiny slice... Mary Berry cuts price of her unsold home from £4m to £3.8m
AFTER her decision to downsize last year, work on Mary Berry’s new home is well under way.
As builders extend the kitchen and award-winning designer Bunny Guinness tackles the garden there’s been only one small hitch.
Her old house is still on the market – eight months after being offered for sale.
Now the former Great British Bake Off judge has slashed £150,000 off the price of the six-bedroom mansion in Penn, Buckinghamshire, in an attempt to entice buyers. The 18th-century Queen Anne style farmhouse – Miss Berry’s home for 29 years – was offered for £4million in October but is down to £3,850,000. The Grade II- listed house comes with four acres of landscaped gardens overlooking meadowlands and a duck pond, as well as a tennis court, a two-bedroom cottage, a former brewery house and wine cellars.
Miss Berry, 83, and her husband of 52 years, Paul Hunnings, are moving to a fourbedroom home in Henley with a separate cottage, gym, tennis court and an indoor swimming pool.
It cost £2.6million – £400,000 less than the original asking price – and is, to the TV star’s delight, an eight-minute walk from the nearest Waitrose.
The kitchen is being extended to give her space for TV shows and possibly home teaching.
Miss Berry was not available to comment yesterday.