It was reported this week that the Pink Floyd legend’s former mansion in Checkendon, South Oxfordshire, was unoccupied.

But property agents said it was privately owned and actively maintained, currently undergoing restoration.

The guitarist bought Hook End Manor near Checkendon in 1980, at the height of the band’s fame, and used the on‑site studio for work with the band.

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The 16th‑century property in rural South Oxfordshire is set in about 25 acres of parkland just south of Checkendon and close to Gallowstree Common.

Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire (Image: RPA Architects)

Mr Gilmour and his family are understood to have moved out in 1987.

No one currently resides inside Hook End Manor itself, but the wider Hook End Estate includes several other residential properties which are occupied.

Although he no longer lives in Oxfordshire, Mr Gilmour has close links with another music legend who does still live in the county – Kate Bush.

Kate Bush (Image: PA)

He championed her at the start of her music career, which led to her gaining a major recording contract.

In about 1974, Mr Gilmour listened to a demo containing over 50 songs written by Kate Bush, then a teenager.

He paid for a professional demo session at Air Studios in London, which included the song The Man With The Child In His Eyes.

She later signed for EMI and the single Wuthering Heights hit number one in March, 1978, and stayed at the top of the charts for four weeks.

Kate Bush said earlier: “I had been writing since I was about 13 seriously and it was my family and my brother John who felt that it would be a good idea to get some of my songs published.

“Through a friend of the family we made contact with David Gilmour who at the time was scouting for talent to perhaps produce or encourage.

“He came down and heard some songs and I think he was impressed. Eventually he put up the money for me to go into the studio and make three tracks, properly produced and through those tracks I got the recording contract.”

Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running Up That Hill reached number one in 2022 following its inclusion in the Netflix drama Stranger Things.