Ramsay’s recipe for £7.5m
TV chef sells his seaside mansion in the ‘most expensive house sale’ in Cornwall
He is famed as much for his explosive temper in the kitchen as his exquisite award-winning cuisine.
But Gordon Ramsay can also quietly cook up a quick profit on the property market.
The celebrity chef, whose TV shows include Hell’s Kitchen and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, has sold one of his Cornish homes for £7.5million – nearly doubling his money in four years.
The price he received for the beachfront Daymer Bay House in Trebetherick, north Cornwall, reportedly makes it the most expensive single home ever sold in the county.
Scot Ramsay, 55, bought the traditional stone-built five-bedroom house, which has a tennis court and pool, in December 2016 for £4million. He, wife Tana, 47, and their children spent time there while extensive works were carried out on their £4.4million beachside mansion in nearby Rock.
The family also relocated there during the pandemic. Fans were given a glimpse on Instagram of the property, which has gardens leading down to the beach.
Ramsay, whose company owns more than 50 restaurants, cafes and diners around the world – including two in London with Michelin stars – was seen speaking from a large outdoor patio while other footage showed an openplan kitchen. He was granted planning permission for a single-storey wooden cabin at the property for family and friends to stay in.
Newly released documents show Ramsay, who is worth an estimated £180million, sold Daymer Bay House in March 2021 for £7.5million – a profit of £3.5million in just over four years.
The couple also owned Trevail House, a converted bank in Fowey, south Cornwall, but the Grade IIlisted property, which they bought for £2million in 2017 and rented out as a holiday home, was sold for £2.75 million in October 2020.
Ramsay and his wife, who have five children – Megan, 23, twins Jack and Holly, 22, Tilly, 20, and Oscar, three – own a house in Bel Air, Los Angeles, bought in 2012 for a reported £5.5million, and a family home in London, bought in October 2002 for £2.8 million, which they are currently having extended and renovated. They bought the run-down 1920s clifftop mansion in Rock in 2015 but incurred the wrath of some locals when, after winning an eightmonth planning battle, they demolished it to build an ultra-modern cubist-design house with infinity pool plus adjacent three-bedroom grass-covered garden house.
Those who objected to the redevelopment included one who accused Ramsay of bringing ‘Legoland to Cornwall’.
The chef fell foul of the Cornish locals again during the first Covid lockdown, amid claims he broke the rules by travelling around the county rather than staying at home in Daymer Bay.
It led to Ramsay defending himself in a Radio Times interview in March. He said: ‘God knows why we took so much s*** from the Cornish. We lived down there, we just hadn’t been down there for a long time. We didn’t sneak down there at all. We got there at an appropriate time and had an absolutely amazing time.’
He subsequently told a radio show: ‘I absolutely love Cornwall, it’s just the Cornish I can’t stand.’
‘It’s the Cornish I can’t stand’