Feel TOO close to you right now? Calvin Harris installs ‘privacy glass’ at his £3.6m Cotswold mansion after discovering local bus passengers can see inside
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Pop superstar Calvin Harris is one of the new breed of celebs relocating to the bucolic Cotswolds who has then found that country life isn’t as idyllic as it’s cracked up to be.
After buying a mansion for £3.6million, flattening it and rebuilding it over five long years, he has discovered that a bus route roars right past – allowing anyone on board to look right into his house.
The DJ has had to put in one way glass to preserve his privacy. The reflective glass allows him to see out, but no-one to see in and it was visible for the first time this week as scaffolding was removed from the enormous newbuild.
Buses from local coach firm Pulhams Travel thunder past the house on an eight-stop circular route which takes an hour and joins Calvin’s new village to the local Gloucestershire market town.
The Scottish hitmaker, 41, worth an eye-watering £250million, is set to move into his stunning mansion with his pregnant wife, Countryfile and Radio 1 presenter Vick Hope later this summer.
Harris has also reportedly bought two neighbouring homes and is eyeing up a third, bringing his total spend in the area to an estimated £15million.
Calvin, who once worked in a fish factory and stacked shelves at Safeway to buy his first decks, has since topped charts with 11 UK No1s and raked in millions from a Las Vegas residency.
Superstar DJ Calvin Harris has had special glass fitted on the windows of his Cotswolds mansion after realising it’s just few feet from a local bus route
Calvin Harris (right), worth an eye-watering £250million, is set to move into his stunning mansion with his pregnant wife, Countryfile and Radio 1 presenter Vick Hope (left) later this summer
Buses from local coach firm Pulhams Travel thunder past the house on an eight-stop circular route which takes an hour and joins Calvin’s new village to the local Gloucestershire market town
Since he sold his song catalogue in 2020 for a reported £76million he has invested heavily in property.
Already the owner of a £12million mansion in LA, a £7.5million London townhouse, and a 138-acre farm in Ibiza, Calvin appears to have found his UK base in the Cotswolds, alongside celebrity neighbours like Kate Moss, and Jeremy Clarkson.
American star Ellen DeGeneres relocated to the Cotswolds late last year but sold her house and moved to another nearby property. The first house had come close to flooding after a deluge and she also found that a width restrictor at the end of her lane was too narrow for her 4×4 to comfortably pass.
Meanwhile the Beckhams, who bought their home in the Cotswolds in 2016 had a number of planning and issues during their renovations.
Earlier this month one of their neighbours objected to the Beckhams plans to renovate a barn, saying ‘This is just the latest in a long line of applications to build new structures on this land, plus a giant lake. Why do famous people move out to the country and then clutter up their land with endless buildings and make silly alterations? It makes no sense.’ However permission was granted.
