Wayne and Coleen Rooney’s new £20million mansion in Cheshire is nearing completion after construction resumed on the lavish site in May following delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Work on the huge six-bedroom country house and 40-acre estate in Knutsford, Cheshire stopped in April due to concerns around building supply deliveries as lockdown restrictions came into full force.
The site which has already taken three years to build, has been widely mocked for looking like an out-of-town Morrisons supermarket. The land features a football pitch and the home will have its own orangery, snooker room with bar, cinema and swimming pool when construction is finished.
While work on the home continues, Wayne, 34, was spotted out and about on Friday looking stern as he appeared shortly after new documents revealed further details of his wife Coleen’s legal fight with fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy, as the latter will accuse the former of leaking her own stories to the press in a high court battle.
Getting there! Wayne and Coleen Rooney’s new £20million mansion in Cheshire is nearing completion after construction resumed on the lavish site in May following delays due to the coronavirus pandemic
As well as all the luxurious trimmings of the home, the latest images of the mansion show the couple have now had a new road added leading up the palatial countryside digs. Wayne, is also having a security system installed, as well as an underground tunnel and a bunker where he will keep a getaway electric car.
Safety precautions are being taken after the footballer’s family suffered an attempted burglary at their old £6million home in 2016 while Wayne was playing a match.
Robert McNamara from Scarborough, North Yorkshire admitted attempting to enter as a trespasser with intent to steal on August 3, 2016. The former serviceman was jailed for two years and eight months.
The couple reportedly paid a Cheshire property over £4million to build their dream three-storey mansion in 2017, kitted out with state-of-the-art security features.
Building up: As well as all the luxurious trimmings of the home, the latest images of the mansion show the couple have now had a new road added leading up the palatial countryside digs. Wayne, is also having a security system installed, as well as an underground tunnel and a bunker where he will keep a getaway electric car
Working hard: While work on the home continues, Wayne, 34, was spotted out and about on Friday looking stern as he appeared shortly after new documents revealed further details of his wife Coleen’s legal fight with fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy, as the latter will accuse the former of leaking her own stories to the press in a high court battle
Safety first: Wayne, is also having a security system installed, as well as an underground tunnel and a bunker where he will keep a getaway electric car
Wow! The home is incredibly impressive in all its finery
Shortly after acquiring the plot, they entered a 22-month long planning row with locals who objected to the building of a farmer’s shed to house and tractor and hay bales. The dispute was settled in Mr Rooney’s favour.
Neighbours also objected to a 9ft security fence which they claimed was an eyesore that would ‘urbanise’ the countryside. Again, they were overruled in the Rooney family’s favour.
The ex-Premier League star’s bunker which is being built into the home will apparently have CCTV, a kitchen and a toilet for a guard and a secure pick-up area, according to The Sun.
Get there in the end! Shortly after acquiring the plot, they entered a 22-month long planning row with locals who objected to the building of a farmer’s shed to house and tractor and hay bales. The dispute was settled in Mr Rooney’s favour
How long!?!? Wayne and Coleen have already waited a whopping three years for completion
Stunning: The mansion has a subterranean basement home to a steam room, plunge pool, hot tub, cinema room with 10 seats, wine cellar and snooker room with bar. It will also include an extensive patio, landscaped gardens, a luxury car garage and a stable block
The mansion has a subterranean basement home to a steam room, plunge pool, hot tub, cinema room with 10 seats, wine cellar and snooker room with bar. It will also include an extensive patio, landscaped gardens, a luxury car garage and a stable block.
The Rooneys were hoping to be in their new home in May, after the English Football League had ended. But the pandemic has left League bosses with problems in setting a new date for the season’s conclusion.
A source close to the footballer claimed the family had not planned to move in ‘for a significant while yet’. The couple, and their four sons Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass have been staying in a nearby £5million home while the £20million Cheshire mansion is being built.
Happy families: Wayne shares sons Kai, 10, Klay, seven, Kit, four, four, and Cass, two, with wife Coleen
Moving on: Wayne looked to be moving on from his wife’s woes
Away from the building work, in Coleen’s dramas, Rebekah has revealed her ‘extreme anguish’ about being exposed ‘to public ridicule and contempt’ by Coleen in the so-called Wagatha Christie case.
The wife of Leicester City and England footballer Jamie Vardy told in a bombshell legal document how she had been left suicidal by the accusation that she had leaked stories about Coleen and her family.
She also claims in the document drawn up for her libel battle against Coleen that the stress of the scandal had left her fearful of losing her unborn baby and suffering panic attacks that made her too scared to leave her home.
In an astonishing claim, Rebekah complains of being made a ‘scapegoat’ by Wayne Rooney’s wife seeking to blame her for stories appearing when in the past Coleen had approved of her friends leaking gossip about her.
Shocking: Away from the building work, in Coleen’s dramas, Rebekah has revealed her ‘extreme anguish’ about being exposed ‘to public ridicule and contempt’ by Coleen in the so-called Wagatha Christie case
The document says Rebekah believes she ‘has deliberately been made a scape goat (sic) by the Defendant (Coleen) for past “leaked” stories.’
It points to previous stories about Coleen and Wayne with some ‘in particular about their marriage, which have in fact come from the Defendant’s friends, at times even with the Defendant’s approval.’
The paper states that Sun journalist Dan Wootton had said on talkRADIO on October 19 last year that Coleen had ‘manipulated the media to tell stories about her own life’.
Wootton added that he had ‘written many, many stories’ about her marriage and ‘lots of other things around the Rooneys’ that had come directly from friends of Coleen including some told ‘with her (Coleen’s) approval’, says the document
Some day! The Rooneys were hoping to be in their new home in May, after the English Football League had ended. But the pandemic has left League bosses with problems in setting a new date for the season’s conclusion