Actress Helena Bonham-Carter and her husband Tim Burton have bought the mansion once owned by her Great-grandfather and former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

According to the Daily Mirror, the couple bought the Oxfordshire property for �2million and plan to settle there with their two year old son.

The house was a home to Bonham-Carter�s grandmother Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury�very laa-di da.

A source told the tabloid: "Helena and Tim are totally over the moon. Its eight-and-a-half acre garden borders down a backwater on the River Thames. It's absolutely gorgeous.

"More importantly for them, when in the house or garden, you can't see or hear anything from the nearby road - the house has total privacy."

At least they won�t be scaring anyone tucked away there�