Ramsay’s £7.5m house sale sets county record
GORDON Ramsay sold one of his Cornwall homes for £7.5 million in what is the most expensive sale ever recorded in Cornwall, documents have revealed.
The multi-Michelin-starred chef had owned three properties in the county at one point, but the sale brought that number down to just one.
Daymer Bay House, in Trebetherick, east of the River Camel, near Polzeath, was bought by the fatherof-six for £4 million in 2016.
He sold it in March 2021 for £3.5m more than he paid for it, according to Land Registry documents.
Ramsay, 55, bought the property at a time when he was in the middle of a planning battle to bulldoze another house in Rock that he owned.
The Hell’s Kitchen star lived at Trebetherick while rebuilding the Rock property.
He built two homes on the site of the 1920s five-bedroom home, called Lanarth, which he bought for £4.4m in 2015.
At the time, his purchase of the original building was the second most expensive sale ever recorded in Cornwall. But estate agents said the property needed modernisation, and in July 2016 Ramsay won an eightmonth battle to knock it down.
Previously, the most expensive sale recorded in Cornwall was Rock’s Polwartha. The house saw the county’s first £1m house sale in 1998 and sold again for £6.5m on September 27, 2007. It remained the most expensive property sold in Cornwall until Ramsay’s sale.
Little is known about Ramsay’s Trebetherick property, but in 2019 the celebrity chef was given the green light to build an igloo-style wood cabin in the back garden to provide a place to stay for visiting friends and family. He and daughter Tilly are pictured above outside of the home during an appearance on This Morning.
He also sold his Grade II-listed Fowey property back in October 2020 for £2.75m. Trevail House, on Fore Street, was the town’s former Lloyd’s Bank and underwent extensive renovations in 2017 before being let out as a holiday home for up to £7,000 per week.
Ramsay’s daughter Holly and son Jack spent time at the property with friends during the first coronavirus lockdown.
Ramsay, who still has three homes in England and the United States, is not the only celebrity selling up. Dawn French recently made a profit of more than £4m when she sold her well-known Fowey home to a British businessman millionaire.
Land Registry documents show that the Vicar of Dibley star made an impressive £4.3m on her home, which was her primary residence, after buying it in 2006. She sold it to Welsh professor and scientist Sir Christopher Evans for a whopping £6.6m last year. She paid £2.3 million for it in 2006 – roughly one third of what it later sold for.
She paid nearly £2m for a new home closer to the Devon and Cornwall border.
At the time, a friend revealed she had wanted a quieter life in an apparently “less cool and trendy” corner of Cornwall – while stressing that the 64-year-old would never leave Cornwall altogether.