After being granted permission to demolish his £4 million, five-bedroom farmhouse back in July, instead of bringing in the bulldozers as one would, the former Top Gear presenter hired a demolition crew to completely obliterate his old home.
According to the Telegraph, all that remains of Clarkson’s former home is an “enormous pile of rubble and wood”. Curiously, his neighbors only received a letter warning them of the incoming blast just the night before.
In the meantime, it seems that Clarkson and his team were in the area filming for his new show on Amazon, The Grand Tour, though it makes just as much sense if he was there simply to supervise the demolition.
One of his neighbors, who saw what was left of his old estate, said that the whole thing was “typical Clarkson.”
“Before there was a big old farmhouse, but there is little to be seen of that now. Apparently they sent some of the villagers who were around half a mile from it letters telling them something was going to happen.”
“It’s just typical Clarkson, isn’t it? Any normal person would get in people to take it apart conventionally, but he blows it up. He blew up the entire house. All that’s left is a huge pile of Costwold stone.”
As for his his new home, it’s been described as a “modest country house/gentrified farmhouse which gives the appearance of having grown over time.” It is said to have a walled garden, orangery, basement cinema, five bathrooms, space for five cars in the garage and a quad bike store.
