Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi list sprawling UK farmhouse for $45 million

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6 days ago

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Comedian and former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is selling off one of her UK homes nine months after ditching the US to live in the English countryside.
In November, DeGeneres and her wife, Australia-born actress Portia de Rossi, left the US to live in the UK, recently explaining that she made the decision the day after Donald Trump was re-elected US president.
At a conversation event held in Gloucestershire in mid-July, DeGeneres confirmed the re-election of Trump spurred their decision to move because, "Everything here is just better".
The couple initially moved into a £15 million ($AUD31 million) Cotswolds farmhouse, which is now on the market with an asking price of £22.5 million ($AUD45 million).
"When we decided to live here full time, we knew that Portia couldn't live without her horses," DeGeneres told The Wall Street Journal.
"We needed a home that had a horse facility and pastures for them."
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The sprawling circa late 1700s estate, Kitesbridge Farm, is listed with Andrew Barnes from Sotheby's International Realty.
Spanning seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, the listing described the property as "beautifully reimagined over the past year to an exceptional standard".
Under the couple's ownership, the property has reportedly been updated with renovations and landscaping.
"Discreetly set at the end of a long private driveway, the estate blends period character with sleek, modern design across 43 acres of rolling Cotswold countryside," the listing reads.
The main house wraps around a central landscaped courtyard.
A series of spacious reception rooms overlook the courtyard to create a "seamless link between indoors and out".
Described as designed for grand-scale entertaining and relaxing, the layout combines "sharp architectural detail with a contemporary eye for volume, proportion and finish".
The centrepiece of the house is the timber kitchen and breakfast room.
The luxurious main suite on the ground floor comprises two dressing rooms, a marble ensuite and French doors leading to a private garden.
Upstairs are another five bedrooms and a large sitting room.
Additionally, the estate has a two-bedroom self-contained guest cottage with a kitchen and sitting room.
There is also a converted granary building with a five-car garage, a kitchenette, and a "party barn" with its own pub upstairs.
Other features include a heated indoor swimming pool, a gym with shower facilities, and a changing room.
A separate helicopter shed offers further potential, with scope for conversion into an indoor padel court, artist's studio, or private office.
While DeGeneres,67, and de Rossi, 52, wait to offload their Cotswolds home, the couple have settled into a new luxury pad on 100 acres in Oxfordshire.
The minimalist glass house was built by a UK-based developer, who described the glass-fronted house as an attempt to "redefine rural modern living".
Although the sale price is undisclosed, reports suggest DeGeneres and de Rossi splashed between $US20 million and $US27 million on the five-bedroom single-level residence.
Sitting on the hilltop, and around 30 minutes from the Cotswolds, the concrete and glass house is built around a Japanese-style courtyard garden.
Inside features high ceilings and exposed beams, with oversized glass taking in expansive countryside views.
The couple keeps a flock of sheep on the property, which has proved a challenge for the first-time farmers.
Recently, DeGeneres has posted videos on Instagram showing the sheep escaping from their paddock and raiding the chicken coop.
"They escaped the electric fence; that didn't work," DeGeneres said.
Another video shows the former Ellen host on a ride-on mower with the caption: "Sheep are supposed to eat the grass so you don't have to mow. Our sheep didn't get the memo".
The couple is seasoned property flippers.
Last year, DeGeneres and di Rossi offloaded their sprawling blufftop estate in Santa Barbara for a huge profit.
The couple's Tuscan-style mansion sold for a whopping US$96 million, less than two years after they paid US$70 million for the five-bedroom home.
Ally McBeal actress de Rossi and DeGeneres snapped up the 10-acre estate in Carpinteria in 2022.