Ed Sheeran Says He ‘Bought a Pub on eBay’ to Recreate His Favorite Spot at His Home in England

The singer revealed that he built a pub in his backyard on a new episode of ‘Call Her Daddy’

Ed Sheeran can now have a pint in the comfort of his own home.

The “Eyes Closed” singer, 34, revealed that he has built a pub in his backyard while speaking on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday, April 9. He said it’s modeled after his favorite pub that he once loved going to with friends as a teenager.

“You can never really let loose the way that you used to be able to, as in my teenage years, you know, you go to a pub to blow off steam,” Sheeran explained. “I think it sort of turned into, everyone always knew that I went to this place, and there was a dilapidated barn on my land. I was like, we could just turn it into a pub.”

The singer elaborated, “So I bought an old pub off eBay, like the the counter, and there’s a tunnel to it, and in the tunnel, I built a listening room, and there’s a cinema, and that’s kind of my, less of a man cave and more of a man catacombs.”

Cooper, 30, asked Sheeran if the pub has a name. The singer then explained the sentimental reasoning behind the pub’s name, Lancaster Lock. “It’s basically my mum’s maiden name and my wife’s mum’s maiden name,” he revealed.

He then joked that he throws “ragers” at the pub, which holds a myriad of unique memoribilia. “I collect movie props, too, so I’ve got all of that there,” Sheeran said.

Prior to building the pub in his backyard, Sheeran additionally built a chapel on the land of his U.K. estate.

“We built a chapel on our land, and we do Christmas carols there,” the singer shared. “And then after the Christmas carols, everyone comes in for mulled wine and mince pies and stuff. We can hold 40 or 50 people [in the pub], but it’s like a crammed space.”

The singer felt inspired to build his own village at home for privacy reasons.

“I know it sounds weird to sort of build an infrastructure on your property where you don’t have to leave it… There’s certain moments you just want to spend with your family and not have someone filming you while you’re doing it, especially whether it’s something like that, like Christmas,” he said.

The podcast episode comes after Sheeran’s latest single, “Azizam”, a collaboration with Iranian-born Swedish singer-songwriter and producer Ilya Salmanzadeh, was released on April 4. The song explores a fusion of Sheeran’s sound with Salmanzadeh’s Persian roots.