Inside tech bro's star-studded home where Renée Zellweger filmed movie

Inside tech bro’s star-studded art deco mansion: Stunning 1930s home where Renée Zellweger, Alex Chung and Girls Aloud filmed is put up on market for £5.45M by entrepreneur owner

• Grade II listed 1930s mansion in Surrey has gone on the market for £5.45m
•  Roundhouse used by celebs like Renée Zellweger, Alexa Chung and Girl Aloud

An art deco mansion, which has played host to actors, pop stars and influencers, has gone on the market for £5.45 million.

Owner Osman Kent, who owns St Ann’s Court, the Roundhouse, a Grade II listed 1930s architectural masterpiece, in Chertsey, Surrey, and its neighbouring 18th Coach House, which houses a recording studio, has dropped the price by a third from a staggering £9 million.

It was at the Roundhouse that actress Renée Zellweger filmed the party scene for the 2019 film Judy, Alexa Chung shot her look book for M&S, David Suchet filmed Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Girls Aloud made their infamous Nintendo advertisements.

And the Coach House, which is set in eight-acre award-winning grounds, with an orchard, small lake, and water lily pond, has played host to musicians such as Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, and Paul Weller.

Tech entrepreneur Osman Kent, who founded the independent record label Songphonics, bought the estate in 1997 from guitarist Paul Manzanera, who created the recording studio, where Roxy Music recorded Flesh + Blood and Avalon.

Art deco mansion, St Ann’s Court, the Roundhouse (pictured) in Chertsey, Surrey which has played host to actors, pop stars and influencers, has gone on the market for £5.45 million

The property, which is a Grade II listed 1930s architectural masterpiece, has its own library (pictured)

Alexa Chung (pictured) shot her look book for M&S at the Roundhouse in 2016

Pop group Girls Aloud also made their infamous Nintendo advertisements at the house

Speaking on the forthcoming Channel 4 show Britain’s Most Expensive Houses, the father-of-three said: ‘We spent two years and a couple of million getting it refurbished but we are now trying to find the next custodian for this house’ (living room pictured)

The property has a room dedicated to bar sports with a luxury pool table at its centre

Speaking on the forthcoming Channel 4 show Britain’s Most Expensive Houses, the father-of-three said: ‘We spent two years and a couple of million getting it refurbished but we are now trying to find the next custodian for this house.’

The Roundhouse, which was inspired by the renowned modern architect Le Corbusier, was designed in 1936 by Sr Raymond McGrath. Celebrated garden designer Christopher Tunnard created the grounds, which were once painted by Turner.

‘He designed it for Gerald Slazenger who was a German financier and Sir Christopher Tunnard who was a landscape designer,’ explained Mr Kent, a tech entrepreneur, who made his fortune in Silicon Valley, and is now a musician, composer, and musician.

‘This bedroom was designed to hide the fact that Slazenger and Tunnard were lovers. It was the 1930’s and it was criminal to sleep together for gay people so at a moment’s notice this became two bedrooms.

‘The double bed split into two single beds and—and went either side and you can see it was a curtain all around and they pretended that they had a dining table in the middle.

An aerial view of the Roundhouse and the Coach House in Surrey

The Roundhouse, which was inspired by the renowned modern architect Le Corbusier, was designed in 1936 by Sr Raymond McGrath

Celebrated garden designer Christopher Tunnard created the grounds, which were once painted by Turner

The 6,500 sq ft Roundhouse comprises six bedrooms, a circular living room, dining room, library, kitchen room and garden room on the ground floor with a master bedroom with ensuite bathroom and dressing room on the first floor

The Coach House, 65 ft from the main property, has a double-height reception room, a control room, a large live room, as well as two studies, a library/board room, kitchen, and bathroom, with a small flat for visiting artists and a games room on the floor above

A view of the Coach House from the Roundhouse terrace

Renée Zellweger filmed the party scene for the 2019 film Judy, a biopic about Judy Garland, at the Roundhouse

David Suchet filmed Agatha Christie’s Poirot (pictured) at the Roundhouse mansion

The 6,500 sq ft Roundhouse comprises six bedrooms, a circular living room, dining room, library, kitchen room and garden room on the ground floor with a master bedroom with ensuite bathroom and dressing room on the first floor.

The Coach House, 65 ft from the main property, has a double-height reception room, a control room, a large live room, as well as two studies, a library/board room, kitchen, and bathroom, with a small flat for visiting artists and a games room on the floor above.

A Japanese-inspired wooden walkway, through prairie beds and wildflower meadows, was later commissioned by Mr Kent from Chelsea winner Juliet Sargeant and the gardens have been filmed for the BBC series Gardens Through Time.

‘The amazing thing about this house is that it is designed so that you feel at one with nature,’ added Mr Kent. ‘We have a beautiful contrast because we have a 1930’s modernist building and then 18th Century coach house which is the red building.’

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