Game of Thrones stars dealt new blow in year-long battle over building at £1.75million Tudor home

TWO Game of Thrones stars person suffered a caller stroke successful a year-long conflict implicit a gathering astatine their £1.75million Tudor home.

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are trying to person a 15th-century barn astatine their location successful Suffolk, into a impermanent location with a games room.

The brace privation to reconstruct the barn to supply impermanent accommodation, a games room, and besides instal caller gates and different landscaping features astatine the historical property.

But Harington and Leslie, who play Jon Snow and Ygritte respectively successful HBO phantasy deed Game of Thrones, person had their plans stumped by bats.

Babergh territory assembly has yet to o.k. the plans for the 8.2-acre estate, which were submitted successful November 2023, due to the fact that of insufficient accusation provided by the mates astir the bats roosting successful the barn.

Ecological experts Place Services, drafted successful from Essex County Council, objected arsenic a bat survey revealed determination were 39 communal pipistrelle bat sightings connected 3 abstracted occasions successful 2022, with bats falling nether protected taxon laws.

The study had besides noted 1 outer roost, 4 time roosts, 4 hibernation roosts and 1 feeding roosts of assorted bats.

The creatures are protected nether regularisation 43 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, which makes it an offence to deliberately capture, termination oregon disturb definite chaotic animals.

Thirty-nine pipistrelle bats were astatine the barn connected 3 occasions successful 2022, according to a bat survey study submitted to the council.

It said: “In lack of mitigation measures, the projected refurbishment and conversion of the barn volition effect successful the nonaccomplishment and harm to a fig of bat roosts and bats whitethorn beryllium harmed during the works.”

Place Services, a nationalist assemblage biology consultancy that works with councils, person besides objected to the couple’s plans.

It said: “We are inactive not satisfied that capable ecological accusation is presently disposable for determination of this application.”

The complaint, dated Nov 12, demands determination should beryllium “at slightest 1 bat emergence survey during the play May to September and an automated bat detector survey to show its usage by bats for astatine slightest 10 days”.

More details besides haven’t been forthcoming connected their strategy to mitigate and compensate for the bat roosts removal to different country with Place Services recommending that different unfastened barn to the eastbound "may beryllium utilized to supply suitable alternate roosting opportunities".

In 2021, Harington and Leslie won a conflict to build a caller moat wall at their location contempt Historic England saying it could pb to the nonaccomplishment of past remains and artefacts.

They met successful 2012 on the acceptable of the deed HBO series, successful which they played on-screen mates Jon Snow and Ygritte.

It comes aft the celebrity mates lodged plans to physique caller gates astatine their state residence to halt radical peering in.

They said their privateness and information had been ‘continuously breached’ since they moved into the farmhouse successful 2017.

Essex County Council and Place Services person been contacted for remark by The Sun.