Mimixxx Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 This is a piece of news that was missed during downtime :) THE idyllic childhood home of Coldplay's Chris Martin is on the market for £1.35 million. The 33-year-old singer and champion of the Fairtrade movement was one of five children raised in Whitestone House, near Exeter. But now the kids have all flown the nest, retired parents — accountant and magistrate Anthony and music teacher Alison — have decided to downsize. The historic Grade II-listed Georgian six-bedroom property is in the tiny hamlet of Whitestone, perched 500ft above sea level overlooking the Exeter Estuary. The family moved there in 1978, when the multi-million-selling artist was just a baby. He spent his formative years playing in the eight acres of sweeping lawns and clambering up and down its trees. The grounds include a tennis court, field and water trough suitable for horses or ponies. Robin Thomas, of estate agents Strutt and Parker, said there had been quite a bit of interest but no firm offers. He said the house was "just a lovely family home" which had never been a focus for fans. "The children have left home and now the parents want to sell up and move," he said. Chris formed his first band, The Rocking Honkies, at the preparatory Exeter Cathedral School, before boarding at Sherborne School, a boys' independent school in Dorset. He shot to fame with Coldplay with the single Yellow in 2000, and released the award-winning A Rush of Blood to the Head two years later. Martin married actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2003 and the couple have two children, Apple and Moses. His campaigning zeal and clean-living lifestyle has always marked him out from the stereotypical rock 'n' roll singer. He has always rejected the idea that refusing to "dress up in leather and trash hotel rooms" makes him less of an artist, claiming: "It is about independence of mind and spirit". Strutt and Parker describe the property as having an oval entrance hall, reception hall, drawing room, dining room, sitting room and study. It has three bathrooms, a versatile range of attic rooms and there is an attached two-bedroom cottage. http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Rock-star-s-early-home-sale/article-2579015-detail/article.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinFan Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Wow nice digs he grew up in huh??:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I guess at that price it doesn't matter how much the gardener costs per month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlene_Ihnfsa Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 nice place it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumbersGirl Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 * buys lottery ticket * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dry_pretzels Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 After looking at that picture and reading the description, I definitely wouldn't mind living there. :nice: It looks really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalomania Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I thought he said he was poor. :thinking: That sure doesn't look like a poor house to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_shiver Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 more pics http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/Rock-star-s-early-home-sale/article-2579015-detail/article.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 I thought he said he was poor. :thinking: That sure doesn't look like a poor house to me! I think they were all poor students, during university, he and Jonny were hotel cleaners. But he was privately educated, distinctly middle class, which is a negative thing to most of his/thieir detractors. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arwen Evenstar Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 wow Chris's parents are loaded. I thought he grew up in a modest home, and was kinda poor but apparently not :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_shiver Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I think they were all poor students, during university, he and Jonny were hotel cleaners. But he was privately educated, distinctly middle class, which is a negative thing to most of his/thieir distractors. :rolleyes: Great parents, I think and great son of course;) sorry... do you mean detractors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinFan Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Well it goes to show you how Chris's parents privatly educated him early on, then sent him out in the world to college, but didn't foot his bill, made him work for a living. That's a good Mama and Pops in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In a telescope lens Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 That's a beautiful home! :wideeyed::D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 Great parents, I think and great son of course;) sorry... do you mean detractors? Haha yes, sorry, has been a long day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TanialovesUK Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I love that house even if chris never lived there I would buy it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasluvsjonny Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 awww Chris should buy it. Moses could have lots of room to run about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 OMG. It has a water trough! Well get my cheque book, I must have it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApproximatelyInfinite Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 :stunned: I didn't think he grew up in a place like THAT. I pictured him in a pretty average home. Tennis courts and ponies? Even though I live in England for most of the year, I often forget that "middle class" means something different than it does in the US. This proves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_shiver Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Haha yes, sorry, has been a long day. well.....I understanding more and more English....day by day....coldplaying and coldplaying of course!:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumbersGirl Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 THAT[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technicolor Sparks Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I want to buy it! :bomb: I never realized that his family was so rich! I always thought he grew up poorish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cele Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 AWWW! Nice crib haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cadet Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Holy crap! That place is huge!! :shocked2: Even by North American mcmansion standards it's big. Hard to blame them for wanting to downsize. Must have been nice to grow up in, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lore Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 :stunned: I didn't think he grew up in a place like THAT. I pictured him in a pretty average home. Tennis courts and ponies? Even though I live in England for most of the year, I often forget that "middle class" means something different than it does in the US. This proves it. middle class there = very rich people here :blank: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cadet Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 middle class there = very rich people here :blank:Fairly rich here too. So does it have more to do with where the money comes from than how much you have? Old money is upperclass, while new money is middle class because you worked for it? Or is it more complicated than that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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