Homes gossip: Reese Witherspoon; Johnny Depp; Michael Crawford; Stafford Place

Reese says a romantic farewell

Reese Witherspoon is selling her Ojai estate in California for £6.1 million.

The four-bedroom retreat, which comes with its own barn, stables, organic garden and swimming pool, is so picturesque that the pregnant actress chose the gardens as the setting for her wedding when she married Jim Toth earlier this year.

Rumour has it that this is where her good friend Robert Pattinson stayed while trying to escape the paparazzi during his recent relationship issues with Kristen Stewart.

Ghostbusters actor and director Harold Ramis once lived in the home, and interior designer Kathy Ireland is also a previous owner.

Who will be the next celebrity owner to enjoy this generously sized gem?

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Johnny Depp loves a spot of intrigue

If you are a Johnny Depp fan, enjoy some of the stardust in a Grade II-listed apartment that was his home-away-from-home at the time of the charismatic star’s visit to Chipping Campden (while filming The Libertine at Stanway House in nearby Winchcombe).

The flat with a two-bedroom suite belonged to the neighbouring Cotswold House hotel, and is on the market with Sotheby's for £540,000.

The Oscar-winning star has a penchant for intriguing pads. The flat is in The Old Grammar School, founded in 1440 as Campden School. The long Baptist Hicks room, where pupils studied from the 1600s until the 1960s, is now the characterful drawing and dining room.

Depp meanwhile has just spent £2.7 million on a five-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills for his ex, Vanessa Paradis.

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Of wizards and phantoms

Michael Crawford’s former flat in St John’s Wharf, Wapping, is up for sale.
The British singer and actor, who recently starred as The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium, lived in the property between 1985 and 2006, splitting his time between his London home and an LA pad.

A musical theatre maestro, Crawford was often heard rehearsing his Phantom of the Opera songs in the apartment and kept the famous mask in his study, which is now the third bedroom.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse in the Victorian warehouse conversion, which has river views from its large terrace, is on the market with Hamptons International for £3.25 million.

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Become an influential Londoner

If you rent No 16 Stafford Place with its blue plaque there is every chance that you will glimpse a royal and rub shoulders with history.

The prestigious block became the home of influential Londoners, including Leslie Hore-Belisha, who served as Secretary of State for War at the onset of the Second World War.

Just around the corner from Buckingham Palace, No 16 has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a large patio garden. It is listed with Chesterton Humberts for £1,750 a week (020 3040 8220; chestertonhumberts.com).