Marlow resident Ricky Gervais has published images of his £14.5 million house in Hampstead.
The 64-year-old, who celebrated his most recent birthday last week, took to Instagram to show off his home, which he purchased in March 2024.
He lives in the mansion with his long-term partner Jane Fallon, but admits that the mega-house will not be his forever home.
Speaking on a Sunday night vlog on X [formerly known as Twitter] in August last year, the actor, writer, comedian and producer revealed that Fallon raised concerns about the pair living in the property in their 80s.
He also revealed that he purchased his Hampstead home for its tennis court.
He said: “I thought the last house was the one I was going to die in, but I didn't die and I wanted a tennis court so we had to move to a bigger house with a bigger garden just so we could get a tennis court and I just thought this is amazing, this is perfect.
“But Jane went 'we can't live here when we're 80', so that's like a ticking clock.”
As well as the owning his Greater-London property , Gervais also owns a home in Marlow and is frequently since in the town.
The After Life creator and actor also shot some of the TV show’s scenes in nearby Beaconsfield.
In September 2024, Gervais lost a bid to demolish his £3 million home in Marlow and replace it with a luxury new build after flooding problems.
Gervais submitted plans to build a new four-bedroom property at his “country retreat” on the River Thames in Marlow this summer, with design proposals laying the grounds for an impressive Georgian neoclassical-style mansion, replacing the comparatively modest three-bedroom build currently at the site.
Old cat, new house. pic.twitter.com/6bymMucrgu
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) August 24, 2024
His ambitions were dashed earlier this month, however, when the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council refused permission for the project, citing incompatibility with local and national planning policy.
CCTV photos included in the application show the entrance to the house experiencing severe flooding earlier this year – something that would have been combated by new flood guards and “floodable voids” underneath the replacement building’s ground floor.
As well as falling within a flood zone, the property sits on designated green belt land – a fact that stymied Gervais’s plans to add another bedroom to the £3 million home back in March, but was not given significant weight in consideration of the demolition proposal.
Gervais was additionally said to have fallen short of local policy by not securing “adequate financial contribution to the council’s carbon offset fund” through the proposal, meaning the plans could have been judged to have “an adverse impact on climate change”.
