Jeremy Clarkson applies for ‘modest extension’ at Oxfordshire pub

Jeremy Clarkson has submitted plans for a “modest extension” to his pub in Oxfordshire.

Planning documents on West Oxfordshire District Council showed the Windmill Restaurant in Asthall, now known as the Farmer’s Dog, has applied to extend the south of the building to allow space for improved toilet and cellar facilities.

The pub does not currently have an accessible toilet, which it is seeking to rectify through the proposed extension.

The letter revealed plans to build the extension with “horizontal external timber cladding” and would provide “a new pitched roof in reconstituted Cotswold slates to replace the existing bitumen flat roof”.  

It added: “The particular location to the south is part of the operational areas of the undertaking and not one into which the public would normally stray… There are no near neighbours to the site so there would be no impact on amenity.”

The application is being reviewed by the council.

Clarkson purchased the Windmill restaurant and wedding venue in Burford, Oxfordshire, for “less than £1m” and opened the pub to huge queues in August.

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