![]() ![]() The landscaped areas around the house give way to a park-like setting with tree-dotted lawns and a vast meadow with a small pond.Ĭhesney once kept homes in Malibu, Calif., and Key West, Fla., but his heart seems to be in the Caribbean, where he’s long owned a home on the U.S. Outside, there’s a motor court with garaging for six cars - a separate four-car garage is located near one of the gated entrances, plus an outdoor kitchen and an open-air dining cabana next to the stone-edged swimming pool and spa. Three more bedrooms upstairs are joined by a games room.ĭown in the basement, there’s a drab gym with an office-like dropped ceiling, as well as a lavishly appointed screening room festooned with red brocade wall panels between decorative filigreed screens. There’s also a luxury bathroom, two dressing rooms and French doors to a private loggia. The multi-winged home’s four bedrooms and seven full and two half bathrooms include a main-floor homeowner’s retreat where stone columns stand between the sitting and sleeping areas. Throughout the house, there are reclaimed walnut floorboards, Venetian plaster walls, and hand-forged cedar and Douglas fir ceiling beams.Īll three floors are serviced by an elevator, and the whole shebang is topped by a third-floor lookout tower with wrap-around views. ![]() Inside, there are four limestone fireplaces, including one at each end of the double-height living room. The estate’s two gated drives snake across rolling fields and through dense woods before they meet up in a circular drive at the front of the 12,599-square-foot, four-bedroom stone-and-brick residence that more than a little resembles a monastery, down to the faux-aged columns that line the cloistered entrance courtyard. It was in 2009, about four years after his ever-so-brief and tabloid-obsessed four-month marriage to Renée Zellweger, that Chesney plunked down $9.25 million for his longtime Franklin home that he’s now got on the market with Laura Stroud and Lisa Fernandez-Wilson at French King Fine Properties at nearly $14 million. His most recent album, “Here and Now” released last year, debuted at number one - it’s his 16 th top 10 album on the US Billboard 200, and, after it was delayed due to Covid-19, he’s now scheduled to embark on a 20-city American tour to promote the album next year. Though some might say his salad days were a dozen or more years ago, when the Country Music Association awarded him their Entertainer of the Year Award four consecutive times, from 2005 through 2008, Chesney remains a popular entertainer who’s collaborated on songs with a wide variety of artists from Pink and Uncle Kracker to Jimmy Buffett, Reba McEntire and Ziggy Marley. Every Old School country crooner with scores of number-one hits and more than 30 million albums sold around the world needs a deluxe spread in nearby proximity to Nashville to hang his ten-gallon hat and for the last dozen years Kenny Chesney has bunked down in splendid seclusion on 56 bucolic acres in Franklin, Tenn., about a half-hour’s drive south of Music City.
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