Mr Bean, Rowan Atkinson finally completes ‘space-age petrol station’ after ten-year planning row with locals(VIDEO) '미스터 빈' 로완앳킨슨, 10년만에 그의 꿈을 이루다
Mr Bean, his new girlfriend and TWO £5million love nests: Rowan Atkinson finally completes ‘space-age petrol station’ after ten-year planning row with locals
- Rowan Atkinson completes £5m dream home in Oxfordshire village
- The Blackadder star began the project with ex-wife Sunetra Sastry in 2006
- He has reportedly settled in north London home with girlfriend Louise Ford
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She has reportedly made herself at home in Rowan Atkinson’s £4.65million cottage in London – just two months after his divorce.
But Louise Ford, 28 years his junior, has somewhere even more impressive to spend the weekends.
He has finally completed his dream home, once derided as ‘a space-age petrol station’, after a decade-long planning row with locals.
Rowan Atkinson, right, pictured with his girlfriend of two years Louise Ford, left
The £5million 'space-age petrol station' dream home in Oxfordshire that has been completed after 10 years
The Mr Bean and Blackadder star, 61, began the project with his ex-wife Sunetra Sastry in 2006 but they divorced two months ago after 24 years of marriage.
Now it seems that actress Miss Ford, 32, who has been dating Atkinson for two years, is set to enjoy the high-tech house near the 7th-Century village of Ipsden in Oxfordshire.
Atkinson, who is worth an estimated £71million, bought 1930s Handsmooth House and its 16 acres in 2006 for £2,647,500.
He has since erected a three-storey glass and steel villa, complete with an atrium-style living room, solar panels on the roof and a secret garage in a grassy bank for his fleet of luxury cars.
The 8,000 sq ft structure was designed by US architect Richard Meier, who has helped create museums including the Getty Centre in Los Angeles.
Atkinson presented drawings to planners in person, prompting neighbours to complain that those who approved it were seduced by his fame.
Residents also objected to the fact the hi-tech design would sit on a hill in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Pictured: The £4.65million cottage in North London where Mr Atkinson is said to be living with Miss Ford
In a five-minute appearance before the local planning committee, Atkinson said it would blend into the landscape by ‘harmonising’ with it.
The council said the design was ‘exceptional contemporary architecture’.
Miss Sastry, 54, divorced him in November after 24 years of marriage, reportedly because she was ‘deeply upset’ at being replaced by a younger woman.
It is believed they had been living apart for 18months. He reportedly bought Miss Sastry a six-bed West London mansion, costing £21million in 2014.
Meanwhile he has been living in a £4.65million three-bedroom cottage in North London and is said to have invited Miss Ford to join him.
The house in Oxfordshire pictured when first bought by Mr Atkinson before it was converted
She stars in Channel 4’s Crashing, a sitcom about legal squatters living in a disused east London hospital.
The couple met after they starred together in a West End play in 2012.
She had reportedly been sharing a flat in south London with Sherlock actress and fellow stand-up comic Yasmine Akram, 33, before decamping to Atkinson’s London home.
A source told The Sun: ‘Rowan and Louise are both incredibly private people. But this shows they are obviously serious about their relationship.
'Louise is doing really well with her role in Crashing and wants to be in more comedy roles while Rowan has been busy with lots of other projects.
'They work as a couple because they’re both comedy actors and understand each other’s work.”
The actor met his ex-wife Sunetra when she worked as a make-up artist at the BBC in the 1980s. They have two children together, Benjamin, 22, and Lily, 20.
A spokesman for Atkinson did not respond to a request to comment yesterday.
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