Ed Sheeran snowed in at his £3.7m ‘Sheeranville’ Suffolk estate after Storm Darcy hits the UK

Ed Sheeran was snowed in at his East Suffolk home after Storm Darcy ravaged the UK.

The Shape of You hitmaker, 29, was trapped on his £3.7million estate, dubbed Sheeranville, after heavy snow cut off the small village where the star lives with wife Cherry Seaborn, 28, and their daughter Lyra, six months.

Snow drifts measuring up to two feet deep hit the small village in Suffolk on Monday, where Ed’s five property estate is situated.   

The star’s mammoth estate also includes a pub, tree house, swimming pool, underground music room and a cinema room with a 35ft by 20ft screen – so there will certainly be enough to keep Ed entertained as blizzard conditions look set to continue.  

The star has been building and adding onto his estate known as ‘Sheeranville’ for the past five years and in October was said to have planted ‘dozens’ of trees to make his estate more sustainable.  

A source told The Sun: ‘He’s spent tens of thousands of pounds on the project – and Cherry’s involved too as she’s into re-wilding and sustainability.

‘A huge field where his outdoor wildlife pond will become a dense wood in a few years and he’s planted trees six deep around the perimeter to afford him privacy.

‘It’ll help reduce the carbon footprint of him being a touring rock star too.’  

The star, who is worth around £200million has slowly been accumulating the land around his home in Suffolk, turning it into what has become known as ‘Sheeranville’. 

Ed owns five of the properties on the land.

Sheeranville is not without controversy with Ed clashing with his neighbours in the past.

The star has been involved in several legal disputes over his rights and his neighbours’ rights to expand their respective landmasses.

This year Ed’s neighbour, Anthony Robinson, won a battle against the superstar who rejected Mr Robinson’s plans to extend his back garden.

Mr Robinson, who lives three houses along from the pop star’s estate, was given permission to make his back garden 160 feet bigger despite Ed’s objections.   

Mr Robinson already owned the field behind his four bedroom home – which is worth £550,000 – and wanted to incorporate some of it into his private garden.

But Ed, who had undertaken his own vast building project just a few hundred feet away, did not want the space to be domesticated.

He claimed it would ‘extend the village into the countryside in an unplanned and artificial way’.

Although the council objected to Mr Robinson’s proposal initially many neighbours wrote in to support him and his plans were eventually approved.    

Last June the singer had to fight to be able to keep the 16ft pub sign he had hung outside a barn converted into a drinking den. 

Although he had been given planning permission for the pub in 2017 he had not been given permission for the sign which caused locals to question why it was there. 

Sheeran was also told he could not swim in his wildlife pond after he was granted permission to build it under the condition that it was used to provide a natural habitat for frogs, newts and dragonflies.

The council visited his property and specifically forbade ‘recreational leisure such as swimming’. 

He was also forced to remove his outside sauna, in a caravan next to the pond, after neighbours complained.   

Ed bought his first home in the site, a new build, for around £900,000 back in 2012.        

Storm Darcy struck the UK with 50mph winds and a foot of snow turning roads into ‘lethal’ ice rinks – with the chaos set to last until Wednesday.

Most of England and Scotland have seen snowfalls today, with temperatures expected to plunge as low as -10C in Scotland later on as a ‘bitterly cold’ weather system swept in from Ukraine and the Black Sea.  

A yellow snow warning is in place across the eastern half of the UK until midnight on Wednesday, running from the south coast near Brighton up to the Shetlands off northern Scotland.

A more serious amber warning was introduced this morning for Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk and a small part of south-east London.

It expired at 2pm, although another has been introduced for Scotland covering parts of the Central Belt.

Disruption has also hit rail services, with Southeastern advising passengers not to travel and Greater Anglia expecting disruption until midday.