Gareth Bull, who won a little over £40m on EuroMillions in January 2012, now calls the 6,000 sq ft property home, complete with an artificial lake filled with rehomed fish and an accompanying lodge.

The "extra special" four-bedroom house features a swimming pool with programmable waves, a sound system built into the ceilings, three bars and two hot tubs.

Mr Bull, 52, began construction in 2019, six months after buying the two-acre site with a three-bedroom bungalow in Nottinghamshire.

The 'perfect distraction'

He said: "The house is extra special because I did so much of the work myself, and during the pandemic too.

"It helped me through lockdown, and I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't had this to work on. It was the perfect distraction with a great reward at the end of it."

During construction, Mr Bull "decided to dig a small pond outside the house", which he expanded until it became an L-shaped "fishing lake, the size of two tennis courts", calling it 'Lockdown Lake'.

It now houses a couple of hundred fish and has been christened the 'fish orphanage' "because they've all been rehomed".

I 'started digging and couldn't stop'

Mr Bull built 'Lockdown Lodge' alongside the house, complete with two bedrooms, a bathroom and a fully functioning kitchen.

He said: "Once I got the green light to go ahead, I started digging and just didn't stop."

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But when lockdown hit, he said, he "didn't know what to do, so I threw myself into work on the home, and it saved me from getting too lonely.

"Lockdown rules allowed building sites to keep going, so eventually some of my builder friends came to help me, but this turned into my ultimate lockdown project."

After more than a year-and-a-half of construction, he moved into his house on Christmas Eve 2020, celebrating with a "massive" 7ft Christmas tree.

"I wanted everything to be perfect when I moved in and it was," he said.