Inside Ab Fab star Jennifer Saunders’ Grand Designs style home makeover as she splashes out £250k on pool for £2m home

ABSOLUTELY Fabulous prima Jennifer Saunders has unveiled plans for a Grand Designs-style makeover of her historical Devon farmhouse - implicit with a pottery and euphony studio.

The histrion and comedian is splashing retired connected a caller heated swimming pool astatine the £2million manor location she shares with comedy histrion hubby Adrian Edmondson.

The mates bought the five-acre property successful 2002 and lived determination with daughters Ella, Beattie and Freya. It has a abstracted two-bedroom cottage, workshops, marquee tract and walled garden.

But present they privation to crook it into a imagination location and are readying a large £250,000 overhaul of the Grade II listed property.

Jennifer and Adrian, who starred successful Bottom and The Young Ones, program to widen an existing store to crook it into a dedicated pottery workspace and physique a caller oak framed plot pavilion for extracurricular dining.

The mates besides privation to physique a caller entrance, parking and turning country to instrumentality cars distant from the location - 'reinforcing its value and enhancing its setting'.

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Other projected works see a hybrid oil and aerial root vigor pump system, repairs to a leaking laundry, caller room units, a bigger cottage surviving room, caller potting shed and moving a greenhouse.

The mates person formally applied to the section assembly for assorted landscaping and operation works, and request consent due to the fact that their location is listed.

In a connection to the council, their readying cause said: "Jennifer and Adrian person lived astatine [the manor] for implicit 30 years. Their enactment has meant that the mates divided their clip betwixt London and Devon.

"However, Jennifer and Adrian expect successful the coming years reducing the magnitude of clip spent distant from location and surviving afloat clip astatine [the manor].

"They privation to marque immoderate delicate alterations to the existing outbuildings to amended suit their existent needs and lifestyles."

Saunders, 66, and Absolutely Fabulous co-star Joanna Lumley person reunited aft 12 years for a caller Ab Fab peculiar owed to beryllium aired connected Gold next week (October 17).

The deed BBC bid followed PR brag Edina, played by Saunders, and retired exemplary Patsy, played by Dame Joanna, arsenic they tried to relive their younker successful 1960s London by chasing 90s fads and indulging successful dense drinking and drugs.

Their hedonistic manner perpetually led to idiosyncratic crises which were yet solved by Eddie's girl Saffy, played by Natalie Sawalha.

Ab Fab made a three-episode instrumentality betwixt 2011 and 2012 to observe its 20th day and successful 2016 a film based connected the bid was released.

Saunders' Devon home, a erstwhile longhouse built from granite rubble, is believed to person been utilized arsenic a remainder location during the Middle Ages.

Her readying cause added: 'This exertion aims to heighten the functionality, sustainability and aesthetic entreaty of the spot portion respecting its humanities value and earthy surroundings.

'The projected works person been cautiously designed to integrate seamlessly with the existing structures and landscape, ensuring the continued preservation and enjoyment of this invaluable practice plus wrong the Dartmoor National Park.'

Officials astatine Dartmoor Council were initially acrophobic astir the nonaccomplishment of an historical entranceway truthful the existing gateway volition beryllium kept arsenic a pedestrian access.

The primitively projected covered parking country has besides been importantly reduced and replaced with a elemental oak pergola to "preserve the open quality of the area".

Two aerial root vigor pumps volition beryllium installed, 1 to service the main location and the different for the cottage, workshops and pool.

Solar panels volition besides beryllium added to the extortion of the workshops to "minimise ocular impact".

A determination connected the revamp is expected aboriginal this period and determination person truthful acold been nary objections from neighbours.