Actor Kelsey Grammer has been accused of “abandoning” his British seaside home as neighbors say it is in “disrepair.”
The “Frasier” star has been given permission to demolish the historic 200-year-old cottage – despite complaints from locals.
The actor was given the greenlight to knock it down despite being accused of a ‘total disregard’ for the historic building by people living nearby.
He had previously failed in a bid to build an extension on it so won permission to knock the $1m Portishead home down in its entirety.
The plans infuriated neighbors with objections submitted and published on the North Somerset Council planning portal.
But since then locals say no work has been done and he has left the $1 million property to go to ‘rack and ruin’.
Ten months later the house remains unoccupied and looking ‘shabby’ according to neighbors.
One said: ”It’s a lovely home but it looks like it’s going to rack and ruin.
”We’ve not seen him for ages and the place is starting to look like it’s falling apart.
”I suppose if he’s going to knock it down then what’s the point of doing any upkeep?”
Another said: ”It’s a real shame. The house has been empty for four years. I’ve only seen him once in all that time.
”It’s looking pretty run down. He just seems to have vanished, disappeared and abandoned the place.
‘It looks in a pretty poor state now with a wooden shed collapsed in the back garden right by the public footpath and many of the trees cut down. It looks totally unloved – such a shame.
‘We were expecting demolishers to move in or knock on our doors last March.
”But nothing’s happened, so maybe he changed his mind after the backlash. So we are left thinking, what is going to happen to it now?
”He seems to have totally vanished. That said, some people might actually be happy about that as they’re upset with the plans he had to knock the house down.”
Another added: ”It looks very shabby. I think he’s lost interest in it altogether.”
Grammer’s career has had a recent resurgence in the US with a reboot of Frasier.
The Cheers actor, worth $60million, bought the 200-year-old cottage on the outskirts of Portishead four years ago.
He initially submitted plans to have it converted into a grand mansion with coastal views.
But councillors blocked Kelsey’s elaborate plans for the home for him and his wife of 15 years, Kayte, who grew up in Portishead.
Kelsey then said he planned to bulldoze it which he was allowed to do within a ‘permitted development’ legal loophole.
The actor and father-of-eight, who is 70, was branded ‘arrogant’ and ‘disrespectful’ when his legal team posted notice of the demolition.
Grammer said of the house in 2022: ‘It’s a good spot – we’ve actually bought a house there. We bought a little place we’re going to be working on.
‘We won’t be taking up residence for a while but, yeah, we’re pretty excited about it. We have a little view of Wales from the channel there.’
