CHRIS MARTIN and GWYNETH PALTROW are escaping the city to bring up their first child in an idyllic country retreat.

COLDPLAY frontman Chris and his movie star wife have set their hearts on a Cotswold stone cottage in Great Tew, a sleepy village in Oxfordshire.

I’ve managed to get hold of a picture of the home the couple plan to share.

They have fallen in love with the thatched, two-bedroom house and are planning to be in and paying the £500-a-week rent in time for the arrival of their baby in June.

I hope the major renovations are finished by then.

Chris discovered the quaint village last month during a hunt for a secluded country retreat.


He then took Gwyneth and a group of pals to see the area and hired a side room at the local pub, The Falkland Arms, so they could have a drink and a chinwag.

A resident who spoke to the couple said: “Chris and Gwyneth are completely taken with Great Tew.

“Chris said he was a country boy at heart and had to bring Gwyneth to see the house because he liked it so much.

“They had an afternoon in the Falkland Arms — which has won awards for being the most unspoilt pub in Britain — and they said they felt at home here.

Gwyneth told me she was on the lookout for somewhere to settle when their baby is born in June.