For sale, Carol’s €3.1million home (complete with a very rude name)

FANCY owning a Countdown star’s home? You’ll need some big numbers – £2.6million (€3.1million) in fact – but it does come complete with its own word game.

Carol Vorderman has put her large country house on the market nine years after she bought it for £1.1million.

Back then the secluded property was called Uplands, but she renamed it Sloblock after a word used in a Countdown sketch in the 1990s comedy show A Bit Of Fry & Laurie. Anagram fans will realise the letters can be rearranged to form a rather rude word.

Sloblock became the subject of a regular joke between Ms Vorderman and her copresenter Richard Whiteley, who died in 2005, and she gave the home the naughty name in his memory. Ms Vorderman, 55, spent two years refurbishing the five-bedroom home just outside Bristol.

Built in the 1970s, it was designed on a series of concentric circles, combining modern architecture and minimalist design.

The ground floor has a suspended woodburning open fire and glass ceiling in the sitting room, with a glass wall opening onto a circular terrace with a large pond and waterfall. The upstairs overlooks almost four acres of gardens, and there is also a pool house with a fully-equipped gym – where, Ms Vorderman has admitted, she once tumbled off a treadmill while exercising in the nude.

A spokesman for estate agent Knight Frank said Ms Vorderman, who left Countdown in 2008, was moving into Bristol to be closer to her mother.

Seventies style: The house owned by Carol Vorderman, left, has a glass-covered seating area which leads to a terrace and heated pool Dream in cream: The plush property’s large and airy kitchen

All lit up: This living area features a suspended wood-burning open fire