Aerial shots reveal rising river creeping towards George and Amal Clooney’s £12m mansion

George and Amal Clooney‘s £12million mansion has fallen victim to Storm Christoph – after flood water from the swollen River Thames seeped onto the lawn. 

The 17th-century, Grade II-listed house in the celebrity haunt of Sonning is located on an island in the river, which past the edge of their grounds. 

Photos taken today showed a large pool of floodwater on the grass near the riverbank – although thankfully the summer house and tennis court appear to be unaffected.  

The Hollywood star and human rights lawyer moved into the secluded home with their twins in 2016, after an intensive 18-month long refurbishment. 

The Clooneys paid an undisclosed sum for the listed property, which was put on the market for £7.5 million, in September 2014, a couple of weeks after their three-day wedding extravaganza in Venice.

Last year the high-profile pair applied for planning permission for an outhouse to bolster security as the famous home attracts more tourists.

It comes as thousands of people across the country brace themselves for more flooding in the wake of Storm Christoph as the Met Office warned of ice danger and said the UK is set ‘to get more wintry’ with -10C over the weekend. 

Care home residents were among those evacuated after floods in several areas across the North West and Wales following days of heavy rain.

A Met Office forecaster has said, however, that it is going to be ‘more wintry now’ as the storm moves away to the east.

Meteorologist Craig Snell added: ‘We’re losing the rain but gaining some colder and possibly some wintry weather too.’ 

A yellow weather warning for ice is in place along a large part of western coasts until 10am on Friday.

The alert – which stretches from the Scottish Highlands, down to the north west of England and into Wales, as well as covering Northern Ireland – says there is the possibility of injuries from icy conditions on ground which is already wet.

An additional yellow warning for snow and ice is in place across northern parts of Scotland until Friday lunchtime.

The chilly weather will continue into the weekend, when temperatures could drop to minus 10C overnight in localised parts of Scotland, and could dip as low as minus seven in parts of England, Mr Snell said.

He went on: ‘It will be feeling cold, I think that certainly that will be something that we will all be noticing it will be colder than it was to start the week.’

‘I think the main thing for most of us will be that we will see some frosty nights and with the ground wet from the rain we’ve had we may well see some icy patches,’ he later added. 

One grandfather had to be taken to hospital after accidentally swallowing sewage water when his house was flooded.

Chris Spencer and his wife Marlene, both 70, were forced to flee their home in Chester on Wednesday night with the help of their family after dirty water began seeping in amid the bad weather caused by Storm Christoph.

Granddaughter Alex Roberts, who went to help her grandparents after receiving a call, said: ‘As he was trying to get out he fell over into the water and hurt his back, then he swallowed sewage water.

‘With that, he had hypothermia as well because he was so cold so he had to go to hospital and while we were trying to take him out of the water I swallowed some sewage water as well so I had to get antibiotics from the hospital too.’

Ms Roberts, 20, said she and her family, who live nearby, went round to help after receiving a call from her grandmother who was ‘crying her eyes out’ some time after 10pm.

‘It was just literal knee-deep water surrounding the whole of the houses,’ Ms Roberts said. ‘We ran in and we then figured out it was all sewage water so you can imagine the smell. Within five minutes it was at least three feet deep.’