Russian film moguls plan refurb of 'decaying' mansion previously owned by Ozzy Osbourne and actor Dirk Bogarde

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Russian film moguls are planning to refurbish the decaying and damp-ridden mansion previosuly owned by  Ozzy Osbourne and actor Dirk Bogarde.

Sergei Oleg Yershov and Olga Romanov have been granted permission to restore Beel House in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire to its former glory.

The house was previously owned by Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne, 75, and his wife Sharon, 71, who moved into the mansion with their children in the early 1980s.

But the sprawling mansion has been empty since 2013 and a survey carried out in 2021 when it was sold for £4.3million found mould and damp.

Previous owners of the sprawling country mansion include the Osbournes, actor Dirk Bogarde and former Labour MP Robert Kilroy-Silk.

Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne, 75, and his wife Sharon, 71, bought the mansion in the early 1980s but later moved out after Ozzy attempted to kill his wife in their new family home

Actor Dirk Bogarde bought Beel House 1954 but it was in a dilapidated condition. He ad prevously been lviing in a cottage on the house's estate

former Labour MP and talk-show host Robert Kilroy-Silk lived in the house from the 1990s but sold it in 2014 for a staggering £6.5million

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne with their baby daughter Aimee in the South of France. The couple brought p their children in the Buckinghamshire mansion for almost a decade

The Georgian property, which sits close to the racing venues of Ascot and Windsor, boasts four bathrooms, a library, a games room and a croquet lawn. 

The new owners are directors of Los Angeles-based film distribution company VLG.FILM, founded in Russia in 2008.

The pair want to bring Beel House back into use as a home, according to planning documents.

The property, which has been empty for more than ten years includes a spacious living room that is fitted with a fireplace and comes with large windows that allow plenty of daylight to flood through.

There is also a large indoor pool that comes with changing and shower rooms and a games room that features a bar area that provides an entertaining space away from the main house.

The house also looks over a deer-filled park and is understood to have been built for the Duke of Buckingham in the 1600s.

Home to Lady Caroline Cavendish in the 1830s and Colonel Abram 'Arthur' Lyle of the Tate & Lyle dynasty from 1909 to 1920, Beel House was bought by the actor Sir Dirk Bogarde in a dilapidated state in 1954.

New plans summited by the Russian moguls to turn the unkempt mansion back into a family home

Beel house was built for the Duke of Buckingham in the 1600s but has since gone on to boast menay famous owners including politicians, actors and rock stars

The back of the house looks over an enclosed courtyard and wisteria climbs across the cream walls

The living room has large bay windows which look out on to sprawling gardens and a fireplace

The house is set among large gardens and even includes a deer-filled park

He had been renting a cottage nearby and said: 'The actress Kay Kendall and I walked across muddy fields from my rented home to look at Beel House. 

'It was a horror. Bleak and empty, few of its twenty-six rooms caught the sun, and the garden surrounding it was a tangle of overgrown rosebeds.

'Inside it seemed a labyrinth of corridors and stone passages. It was painted throughout in dejected yellow and brown and each room had a rusty gas fire in it.'

He bought the property for £4,000 and ended up pulling down one of its wings.

He then built a swimming pool and a 30ft-long conservatory in the grounds - which Kay Kendall later described as looking like 'an outpatients' department'.

Stars including Judy Garland, Michael Wilding, Glynis Johns and Denholm Eliot are all said to have visited him there.

He moved in 1960, selling the house to Basil Dearden, director of films The Assassination Bureau, Khartoum and The Man Who Haunted Himself, but Basil was killed in a car crash in 1971.

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his wife bought the mansion in the early 1980s but it was put back on the market after Ozzy attempted to to kill Sharon in 1989.

Set inside the gardens is a tennis court. Actor Dirk Bogarde built a swimming pool and a 30ft-long conservatory in the grounds after buying the mansion for £4,000

The hallway includes original wooden tiles and a spiral staircase

The indoor swimming pool is flanked by large stone columns and includes ceramic vases in alcoves at either end

After his arrest and six months in a rehab facility the family continued their life together.

Sharon later described the incident, saying: 'There was a really bad atmosphere in the house, very hostile.

'I knew that something was going to happen. He came down in his underpants, sat on the sofa right opposite me and said, 'We've come to a decision - we're very sorry but you're going to have to die, there's no other option.'

'He jumped on me and his whole body weight was on top of me.

'He had his hands around my neck, he landed on top of me, I just kept thinking 'the kids, the kids, you cannot do this, I'm not ready.'

The X Factor judge managed to press a panic button in their home, and when she came to, her husband had disappeared, and the police were there.

'I knew that I couldn't reach him because he was so far gone,' she added.

'There was nothing I could have said or done because he wasn't there. It was someone else.'

Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon holding their children. Left to right: Aimee, aged 2, Kelly, aged one and newborn jack in 1985

Previous owners have included Robert Kilroy-Silk who embarked on a TC career after politics. Pictured in I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here 

Dir Bogarde said that the house was full of rusting fireplaces and had been painted in miserable shades of brown and yellow

Ozzy was arrested and then completed six months in a rehab facility while Sharon decided whether or not to leave him.

He later remembered the incident, saying: 'I felt the calmest I had ever felt in my life. I was just peaceful. It's not exactly one of my greatest achievements.'

After Ozzy's attack the Osbournes put the house on the market for £1.75million in 1991.

Following that, politician and chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk owned it from the 1990s onwards, selling it in 2014 for a staggering £6.5million.

Now its new Russian owners are hoping to rid the property of its damp problem and restore it to its former glory.

The Russian moguls own LA-based film distribution company which release films across the Baltic countries and have been at the helm of films including the Hunger Games, The Adventures of Paddington and Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen.