Ed’s own mini-village
Now he wants pizza oven and two BBQs for sprawling farmhouse
He’S used to performing to thousands of fans at festivals, trusty guitar in hand.
Now ed Sheeran could soon be brandishing sausages and steaks in the open air if the latest addition to his countryside idyll is approved.
He wants to create an outdoor kitchen with two giant barbecues and a pizza oven at his sprawling £2million farmhouse estate.
The chart-topper, 28, intends to build the kitchen for his personal drinking den, dubbed The Lancaster Lock, at the estate in the Suffolk village where he grew up.
The party area will have a York stone bar, the barbecues and an oven big enough to cook three pizzas at once – featuring a 4ft 7in terracotta chimney.
The outdoor extension will also include decking and seating.
Sheeran, who has sold more than 150million records, hopes the area will ‘enhance the enjoyment’ of his Grade II-listed home. He has already spent millions of pounds on the property to create his own mini-village.
The kitchen, patio decking and bar will have enough room to seat several guests. It is the latest in a series of planning applications to east Suffolk Council by the star. He recently won a battle with the council to keep a 16ftlong sign he installed on The Lancaster Lock – named after his wife, Cherry Lancaster Seaborn. Last year, he was denied permission for a private wedding chapel in the grounds of his home. He had hoped to wed his wife in the Saxon-style round tower.
But planners said the structure would cause ‘unsatisfactory visual impacts’ and create ‘the impression of a second village church’.
In April this year, he was ordered to knock down a sauna he built beside his wildlife pond after locals raised concerns it was going to be used as a swimming pool.
Sheeran, who is worth an estimated £40million, already has a giant treehouse, a trendy pod and a hot tub installed in his main garden, along with a covered swimming pool.
Locals have dubbed the area ‘Sheeranville’ because he owns so much property in the village where he spent much of his childhood.
The Yorkshire-born star bought his detached farmhouse and surrounding land for £895,000 in June 2012 and snapped up the 16th century Grade IIlisted house next door for £450,000.
Sheeran then started his programme of extensive improvements.
The singer bought another four bedroom detached home – in front of his farmhouse – in September 2016.
He paid £925,000 for the property which had fetched just £330,000 when it was sold previously in 2005.