Ed Sheeran has received the go-ahead to expand his £37million ‘Sheeranville’ estate in Suffolk – after getting planning permission for a huge rehearsal space and ‘man cave’.
The singer, 34, is set to convert a big barn at the £1.1million former farm into a large space where he can rehearse, as well as store equipment. He also plans to create an office and a library upstairs.
Ed is gradually converting the outbuildings around the former farm to create a luxurious business premises, where he can write and record his music.
He is already using one of the converted barns, where he part-wrote his new album, Play, as a recording studio. The space has a grand piano in one corner of the studio.
Elsewhere Ed has converted a former piggery into a stunning man cave, with a bar, gym, pool table and bowling alley – believed to have cost at least £150,000 to install.
The star uses the bowling alley to store all his sports memorabilia and his colourful bowling bowls have his album symbols on them, including Divide and Equals.
Ed Sheeran has received the go-ahead to expand his £37million ‘Sheeranville’ estate in Suffolk – after getting planning permission for a huge rehearsal space and ‘man cave’ (Seen in September)
The singer, 34, is set to convert a big barn (Pictured) at the £1.1million former farm into a large space where he can rehearse, as well as store equipment. He also plans to create an office and a library upstairs
The room also features football shirts on the wall, a mini gym, with weights, a pool table and table football.
Outside he has landscaped some of the fields and created a kitchen garden with raised beds for flowers and vegetables, as well as an outside entertaining area with an oven.
The star, who is worth around £200million, has slowly been accumulating the land around his home in Suffolk, but it has not been without it’s controversy with Ed clashing with his neighbours in the past.
The singer has been involved in several legal disputes over his rights and his neighbours’ rights to expand their respective landmasses.
It comes just days after it was reported Ed, who has an impressive property portfolio worth a staggering £70million, had splashed out on the nearby £1 million farmhouse.
‘He bought a Grade II-listed farmhouse and all the land it sits on and is making it another home from home. It’s likely he’ll do all his entertaining there and can make it into a place where he works on new music.
‘The land has loads of barns on it, which Ed is busy converting, One of them is being used as a recording studio,’ a source told The Sun.
‘There was also a piggery, which Ed has turned into the most incredible man cave. It’s got a bar, a gym, a pool table and a bowling alley, which is something he’s always wanted.’
Ed is gradually converting the outbuildings around the former farm to create a luxurious business premises, where he can write and record his music (Seen in September)
He is already using one of the converted barns, where he part-wrote his new album, Play, as a recording studio
The highlight of Ed’s home is his own pub in the grounds, where he previously conducted Zoom interviews during the Covid lockdown
Daily Mail contacted Ed’s representatives for comment at the time.
This comes despite Ed revealing last month that he was relocating to America for the foreseeable future.
He is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but revealed in a podcast interview that he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on tour.
Ed recently snapped up a sprawling £9million home in New York, yet he spends the majority of his time in Suffolk with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three.
Speaking on the 2 Johnnies podcast, he shared: ‘I’m just about to move to America. I feel like I might be the only person moving to America.
‘I’m going on tour there for a while and I have a family so I can’t dip in and out. We’re going and settling there.’
Ed did not specify where in the States he would be moving to.
Yet he previously said that a move to the States could be on the cards because he wanted to transition into country music.
Ed said earlier this year: ‘When you transition to country, you can’t transition back.
The Shape of You hitmaker has been building and adding onto his estate for the past decade, which also includes a pub, tree house, swimming pool, underground music room
‘Nashville is my favourite city in the States and it’s always been my end goal to move to Nashville and transition to country.’
Ed’s decision to move abroad comes just two months after he sparked backlash for claiming he identifies ‘culturally as Irish’ despite being born and raised in England.
While the singer-songwriter was brought up in Suffolk, his father John hails from Belfast, meaning he spent much of his childhood in Ireland.
Opening up on his heritage on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Ed explained: ‘I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with.
‘My dad’s family is … he’s got seven brothers and sisters. We’d spend all of our holidays in Ireland. My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with trad music in the house. So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.’