A up to date and colourful household house in the bucolic English countryside owned by Belles Berry, the daughter of the former “Great British Bake Off” presenter and writer Mary Berry, has hit the marketplace for £3.95 million (US$5.3 million).
Belles Berry—who’s a chef and cookbook writer like her well-known mom—moved onto the 10-acre property in Oxfordshire, often known as Blenheim Farm, together with her household in 2014.
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In 2020, the household overhauled the web site, located near the village of Ewelme, and constructed their glass-clad house, in response to itemizing company Savills, which introduced the property to the market earlier this month.
“I studied Feng Shui before we designed the house, a lot of thought went into the architectural drawings and where everything should go,” Berry mentioned in a press release. “We worked together with RPA Architects. It was a dream project and one we are extremely proud of. It’s a happy house and it has the wow factor, as the whole of one side is glass and south facing.”
The coronary heart of the house is the kitchen, eating and household room, which has far-reaching views out throughout the surrounding countryside and entry to the backyard terrace. There’s additionally an adjoining secondary kitchen.
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“The joy of designing your own house is you can have two dishwashers, two washing machines, two fridges and six bins if you want to—and we did,” mentioned Berry, who co-authored the cookbook “MENOlicious: Eat Your Way to a Better Menopause,” which was printed final 12 months.
The home additionally has a sitting room, a library lined with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, and 5 bedrooms, together with one at the moment used as a research, in response to the itemizing.
Outside there’s a three-bedroom barn-style cottage, a stand-alone video games room, a swimming pool, a tennis court docket, and picturesque gardens and grounds, together with a beech woodland and a fruit backyard.
“We pick blackcurrants and gooseberries in autumn and mum takes her trug home and returns with warm blackcurrant jam by noon,” Berry mentioned. “Mum and Dad moved 6 miles from us in Henley-on-Thames just before lockdown, which is wonderful, they usually head over to us on a Sunday for a roast, Mum always brings the pudding.”
