The sprawling Cotswolds mansion rented by Liam Gallagher in 2024 is now for sale with DDRE Global for £4.7 million.
Gallagher and his fiancée Debbie Gwyther rented the Grade II-listed Stanley Park for almost a year in the run-up to Oasis’ reunion tour in 2025. They paid a reported £16,950 per month, equivalent to £203,400 for the whole year.
A celebrity hotspot with a low profile
Although the area, near Stroud, is a celebrity hotspot — Jeremy Clarkson, the Beckhams, Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell all have homes nearby — locals told Manchester Evening News that Gallagher “stuck out like a sore thumb” in his famous black anorak, despite attempts to keep a low profile.
For Gallagher, the castle-like Stanley Park afforded space, privacy and almost 2.5 acres of grounds in which to walk his rescue dog, Buttons. The building, which has Gothic turrets, crenelated battlements and an arched doorway, was described by current owner Rebekah Seddon-Wickens as “like a miniature castle”. It dates back to 1584, and was extensively rebuilt and enlarged between 1850 and 1870 for cloth manufacturer and politician Sir Samuel Stephens Marling, who kept the estate in his family for generations.
A painstaking restoration
In 1941, it was visited by Queen Mary, who toured the house and gardens and enjoyed an afternoon tea with Lady Beatrice Marling. Following Lady Marling’s death, Stanley Park was converted into 11 flats. The whole estate was auctioned in 54 lots in 1952, and subsequently fell into disrepair.
Seddon-Wickens, a property entrepreneur, bought Stanley Park at auction in 2015. She paid £765,000 for the derelict building and spent eight years on a painstaking restoration which involved reconfiguring the house according to its original floorplans, reinstating original features and adapting the property for modern living. Two original stone fireplaces were found hidden behind newer electric ones, while ornate ceiling stencilling was uncovered beneath layers of paint.
“In the early days, the process felt like piecing together an incredibly complicated jigsaw,” Seddon-Wickens told the Standard last year. “I think I probably looked at it through very rose-tinted glasses, because even when it was terrible, I still thought it was great.”
Inside the mansion
Despite Seddon-Wickens’ description, the house is hardly miniature. Spanning more than 17,000 square feet over four floors, it has 11 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Today, the lower ground floor features two kitchens — one for entertaining, opening onto the garden, and the other a professional chef’s kitchen — as well as a dining room, cinema, sitting room, gym, sauna and shower room. There is also a wine cellar with space for almost 4,000 bottles.
Upstairs, there are a collection of grand reception rooms, including a library, drawing room, billiard room and entrance hall, with an enormous stone fireplace and spiral staircase, reinstated back into its original position by Seddon-Wickens.
Facing the garden is the grand, 900-square-foot ballroom, with soaring, ornately decorated ceilings, wooden floorboards and towering windows overlooking the River Severn and Black Mountains. Above the entrance to the room is a large, stained-glass skylight, described as “one of the house’s defining features” by the listing agents. The house’s 11 bedrooms are all located on the two floors above. Outside, there are acres of gardens, and a terrace equipped for outdoor dining.
Price cut and new roots
This, however, is not Seddon-Wickens’ first attempt to sell Stanley Park. The property was listed with Savills for £5.895 million last year, and at £4.7 million has now received a price cut of more than £1 million. Gallagher, meanwhile, may have moved on from Stanley Park, but has put down more permanent roots in the Cotswolds. He and Gwyther bought an eight-bedroom house near Cirencester from former Arsenal legend Tony Adams in late 2025. Flush from the reunion tour, Gallagher paid £4.25 million for the eight-bedroom house, which sits on five acres and has a swimming pool, tennis courts, stables and a separate two-bedroom cottage.
He made his move public earlier this year with a post on X, writing: “To all the BEAUTIFUL people from the Cotswolds I come in peace you won’t even know I’m there I’m not like all those divvy celebrities who like to show off I’m LO FI as you were LG x.” Gallagher also owns a £4 million Cannes villa and a mock-Tudor mansion near Highgate which he and Gwyther bought for £3.75 million in 2020.
