Premier League star Andy Carroll submits plans for a gazebo – complete with bar, BBQ and TV area – at the £4.1million mansion he bought from Sir Rod Stewart
- Andy Carroll purchased the Essex property from Sir Rod Stewart earlier this year for a cool £4.1 million
- The 30-year-old wants to build a double gazebo in his new mansion complete with a bar and barbecue
- Six-bed pad already boasts tennis courts, a boating lake and a swimming pool in its 25-acres of grounds
Footballer Andy Carroll has submitted plans to build a double gazebo in his new mansion that he bought from music sensation Sir Rod Stewart earlier this year.
The 30-year-old England striker is set to include a bar, barbecue and TV area at the £4million property.
Former West Ham star Carroll snapped up the property after rocker Sir Stewart was forced to drop the price by more than £3million.
The six-bedroom pad in Essex already boasts a full-size football pitch, swimming pool, tennis courts and boating lake – and is set in 25-acres of grounds.
Sir Rod lived in the house – which he called The Woodhouse – for more than 30 years before putting it on the market.
The Essex mansion (pictured above) was snapped up by Andy Carroll earlier this year from rock sensation Sir Rod Stewart
Planning documents for the property (pictured above) show the scale of the gazebo and she shape of the extension
West Ham footballer Andy Carroll and his fiancee Billi Mucklow and their two children have already moved into the Epping property
Sir Rod Stweart his model wife Penny Lancaster put the house on the market in 2016 and have reduced the price three times before finally finding a buyer
Carroll, however, wants to add some glamour to the grounds by building a double gazebo in the garden.
According to plans submitted to Epping Forest District Council last month, the striker – who netted two goals for England in nine games for the national team – has hired a firm called Oak Timber Structures to do the work.
Plans submitted to the council show photos of what the gazebos will look like – based on previous gazebos of a ‘similar look’ – if planning permission is given the nod.
The double gazebo shown to planning chiefs is around 25ft-long, sectioned off into three areas, one with a bar, one with a giant barbecue and seating area – and a middle section with a wall-mounted widescreen TV.
According to the plans the gazebo – set around 50ft from the Grade II-listed mansion – will be made of oak and will not be ‘overlooked by any public right of way’.
The plans state that the gazebo will be made of ‘solid oak’ with ‘treated cedar wood shingles to be used on the roof to match the colour of the house tiles’.
They state: ‘The owner Mr Andy Carroll would like to put a solid oak gazebo in his rear garden and also a solid oak gazebo/porch.
‘The gazebo (will be) located in the garden at the rear of the property which is a solid oak free standing structure which is not connected to the house.
The manor house boasts a boating lake, tennis courts, a swimming pool and huge gardens and is described as ‘an interesting mix of Jacobean style with detailed pargetting [decorative plastering]’
Carroll may have been attracted by the fact that the Grade II-listed manor house has its own full-sized football pitch which players from Newcastle United, Liverpool and his favourite team Celtic have trained on
‘The oak gazebo and oak gazebo/porch are free standing structures and are not fixed to the house in any way.
‘Mr Andy Carroll would like to use oak to keep in character of the grounds being woodlands and fields.’
In August last year, rocker Rod’s wife Penny Lancaster blamed Brexit for not being able to sell the mansion after it was first put on the market in 2016 for £7.5m.
The 74-year-old Hot Legs singer, who is worth £180m and who married to Penny, 47, in 2007, had owned the 25-acre mansion for 30 years.
The couple moved out of the home after snapping up a £5m mansion in nearby Harlow, Essex, but only managed to sell the pad for £4m to Andy Carroll earlier this year.
Carroll, who is said to be worth £19milion, and Miss Mucklow put their old home replete with blue sofas up for sale for £5 million in January
Decorator Nicky Haslam was commissioned by Sir Rod to deck out the home and created ‘flamboyant interiors’ including oak panelling and lavish plasterwork
Speaking in August last year, Penny said: ‘Rod and I have found ourselves affected by the recent property stalemate thanks to Brexit.
‘We can’t sell our old place in Essex, The Woodhouse, despite its unique architecture and strong historical links.
‘The hike in stamp duty hasn’t helped – it almost stopped me in my tracks when I recently invested in an apartment just down the road from our new Essex home.’
She also revealed how Rod’s daughter Ruby, 32 – whose mum is model Kelly Emberg – said she wanted to buy The Woodhouse back at some point in the future.
Penny added: ‘Ruby, Rod’s daughter, has this romantic vision that she will one day buy back The Woodhouse, where she enjoyed so many fantastic years.
‘I hope Ruby realises her dream: The Woodhouse appears in so many of our memories. Rod and I brought our boys back there as newborns and they spent many happy summers there.
‘Call me sentimental, but even after they’ve flown the nest, The Woodhouse will always provide their first-home memories and I hope those feelings of comfort and belonging last for ever.’
A decision by planning chiefs is set to be made in the coming months.
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