Hans moved to the United Kingdom in the 1980s to avoid Swedish taxation and sold his share in Tetra Pak to his brother in the 1990s.

[2] Hans had previously bought the Wadhurst Park estate in East Sussex, in 1975 and this subsequently became his main residence.

[4][b] The single-storey building forms a series of pavilions, in a rough H-plan, set around the Victorian orangery.

The exterior is faced in a variety of materials, including Outram's 'blitzcrete', a blend of crushed brick and concrete, while the interior is decorated with stone and rare woods.

[4] Outram frequently returned to Wadhurst to design additions to the house, including an outdoor-dining pavilion built in 2000 to commemorate the Millennium,[7] and the redesign and roofing of the Victorian orangery to create a ballroom in celebration of the Rausing's 50th wedding anniversary.