‘Britain’s largest new home’ – plans for £100m mega-mansion with underground car museum drawn up

Plans have been approved for a mega-mansion with an underground car museum worth £100 million which would be Britain’s largest new home if built.

Land with planning permission for 68,000ft St John’s House has gone on the market for £20 million.

The home will come with more than 80 rooms and be the equivalent floor space of more than 60 average family houses when built, Gloucestershire Live reports.

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The proposed estate on the village of Ramsden in Oxfordshire is the result of almost 25 years of planning applications and design work.

The plot of 60 acres of private parkland will be the largest Palladian home built in the UK for more than 100 years.

Plans include a huge master suite occupying the entire top floor, a grand ballroom and even an underground car museum to house 50 exotic motors.

The indoor sports complex will have a swimming pool, gym which overlooks the ballroom, leisure room, prep kitchen, bowling alley and a jacuzzi, sauna and steam room.

The entertaining floor, known as a ‘Piano Nobile’, includes a formal dining room, music room, formal living room and games room which overlooks the orangery.

There will also be two gate houses, a self-contained guest gazebo, guest lodge and five bay garage.

Outside, the estate will have landscaped gardens, a tennis court and a second swimming pool.

The land and the property design which comes with it are being sold by Sotheby’s International Realty.

Managing director Guy Bradshaw said: “This sale provides the opportunity to create a significant and special home that once built, will be one of the UK’s most private and significant homes.

“It has taken over 20 years to secure comprehensive planning approval and we believe it will no longer be possible to build something of this stature in this location.

“If someone were to spend in the region of £50m on the build, they will have installed every conceivable security feature within the structure and the most spectacular interior finishes.

“This would make it not only the largest new home to be built in the UK for over a hundred years but also the only one built from the ground up.

“Designed by one of the most revered architects of our time, offering views that make you feel as though you are living within a Constable painting.

“Once complete, we expect the end value could be in excess of £100m.”

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