Shane Warne and Liz Hurley to renovate their UK home - mostly adding ensuites and an orangery
Shane Warne and fiance, Liz Hurley have renovation plans for their £6 million 13 bedroom UK purchase, Donnington Hall near Ledbury.
They want to add en-suite bathrooms in the much-bedroomed manor.
They told the local planning authority they would "in addition to general refurbishment and redecoration works, undo a lot of the damage done over the last century with inappropriate design choices.”
Plans by Robin Samuel Associates have also been submitted to Herefordshire Council to demolish the so-called conservatory extension replacing it with a garden room with large glazed double-opening doors in the grade II-listed Donnington Hall.
"The proposal is to demolish the existing conservatory extension and construct on the existing footprint a garden room owing more in style to an orangery with large glazed double opening doors and a pitch glazed roof lantern behind a parapet wall – an orangery being arguably more in keeping with the earlier Georgian origins of the building."
But Shane was sensitive when asked about the house and the plans last weekend when he hosted a celebrity match with Liz at Cirencester Cricket Club.
"Yeah, we bought a nice house," he told the cheeky English press reporter, Adam Helliker from the Express.
"But I'm not King Warne sitting in a big chair. I still lie on the couch in my tracksuit bottoms and watch telly."
And Miss Hurley apparently is not stuck up. added Shane.
"Cos she also loves wearing her trackies and Ugg boots."
Meanwhile estate agent Jonathan Dixon of JP Dixon has confirmed Shane Warne's Brighton home is officially listed for sale.
The asking price is believed to be around $15 million.
It was last August when the house unofficially hit the market with a report from the United Kingdom suggesting Shane Warne was preparing to relocate from Brighton in Melbourne to Britain and set up home with his intended wife, Elizabeth Hurley.
The Daily Mail report suggested his Melbourne mansion was on the market, and that he and Hurley were off to Donnington Hall (pictured below), a Georgian mansion on the Gloucestershire-Herefordshire border.
She already owned in Gloucestershire.
Donnington Hall (pictured above and below) is an impressive property that boasts a tennis court, fishing lake, Edwardian stables and open field, housekeeper accommodation and 21 acres of woodland.
In November, the Ledbury Reporter revealed the house-hunting rumours when the couple strolled into Greggs the bakers on the High Street.
"The town was buzzing with rumours the couple were looking for property as Liz ordered a custard slice and Shane, two sausage rolls," the Malvern Gazette wrote yesterday.
Last August The Melbourne Age entered the speculative fray reporting there was a $20 million asking price on the Brighton home, but also acknowledging Warne's manager, James Erskine, denial that the Brighton home was for sale.
The Age claimed local sources said prospective buyers have been seen touring the five-bedroom property.
The heritage-listed property was bought for $8.55 million in 2009 with his then-wife Simone Callahan.
Its since been completely renovated to include a wine room, a gym, basement garage, tennis court, cinema and a pool with Warne's cricket number, 23, inscribed on the bottom of the pool.
No photos have yet been published on the JP Dixon website although internal images were aired on the Sunday Today program on June 16.
