Boris Johnson’s houses: right here’s the place PM and Carrie will reside after Downing Road

The Johnsons’ 2020 renovation of their present residence in Downing Road got here beneath intense scrutiny after it emerged Tory donor Lord Brownlow had paid for a number of the refurbishment.

A leaked copy of a quote for works, obtained by The Impartial, reveals preliminary plans for the refurbishment would have seen a complete price of over £200,000. The notorious ‘gold’ wallpaper was anticipated to price within the area of £2,000 on the £208,104 estimate.

The ultimate price of the mission is believed to have been nearer to £112,000, nevertheless. The Cupboard Workplace has a £30,000 finances every year for the maintenance of 11 Downing Road. The extra prices concerned within the refurbishment have since been paid for by Mr Johnson.

Because the Cupboard Workplace has half paid for a number of the work and furnishings it stays to be seen what the Johnsons will be capable to take with them to their new residence when a brand new Conservative social gathering chief is introduced.

Listed below are the opposite properties nonetheless owned by the couple which may turn into the family-of-four’s subsequent residence.

Camberwell, south London

The couple had been dwelling in a flat in a restored Grade II-listed home overlooking Brunswick Park in Camberwell, south London, when Mr Johnson turned Prime Minister in July 2019.

A month earlier, neighbours referred to as police over experiences of a home disturbance.

For the reason that couple lived there they haven’t solely expanded their household by two – with kids Wilfred and Romy now two and 7 months previous respectively — they’ve additionally purchased a townhouse in the identical space.

On 19 July 2019, the couple paid £1.2 million for a four-bedroom, red-brick Victorian terrace residence organized over three flooring.

It spans greater than 2,000sq ft, with two reception rooms, 4 double bedrooms and two bogs.

Final week, the couple listed the Camberwell townhouse on the market. It’s had a contemporary lick of paint, amongst different updates, and has a brand new price ticket of £1.6 million.

The Johnsons revealed their ‘late 2019’ engagement in February 2020, when additionally they introduced that they had been anticipating their first baby collectively.

Mr Johnson is believed to have remortgaged and rented out his Camberwell and Thame properties to pay for the 11 Downing Road flat renovations.

Thame, Oxfordshire

The Previous Farm Home in Thame, Oxfordshire, is a Grade II-listed four-bedroom residence. A chocolate-box cottage, the home has a grand fire, wood beams and views throughout open Oxfordshire countryside. There’s additionally a separate stone annexe, a tennis court docket and swimming pool.

The property was purchased in 2003 by Boris Johnson and his then spouse Marina Wheeler for £640,000.

On the time Mr Johnson was MP for Henley. The couple separated in 2018 and the title of the property was became Mr Johnson’s sole title in February 2020, the identical month a household court docket decide gave Ms Wheeler permission to use for a divorce decree.

In February 2020, when the title was modified, the worth of the property was acknowledged as £1.25 million.

Previous Farm Home got here up for hire final April for £4,250 a month, unfurnished, for a interval of not less than one 12 months.

A let was agreed in Could final 12 months so, ought to the tenancy be nearing an finish, the Johnsons may select to make Previous Farm Home their countryside bolthole if and after they go away Downing Road.

The Thame residence is simply half-hour’ drive from Chequers – the Prime Minister’s nation residence – the place Mr Johnson continued his restoration from Covid-19 after being discharged from hospital in April 2020.

The 16^th-century Buckinghamshire manor is a grace-and-favour residence used to entertain visitors by the Prime Minister throughout their time period in workplace.

Mr Johnson introduced his resignation on July 7 however he intends to remain on as prime minister till a successor is elected, a course of which may take months.