It seems the drama of living in Primrose Hill may have all got a bit too much for Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson.

Around the same time as announcing she is to quit directing sequels to the raunchy film adaptations of the best-selling novels by E. L. James, Heathman noticed a “For Sale” sign appear outside the couple’s six-bedroom mansion overlooking the hill.

The pad, which she shared with husband and Hollywood actor Aaron, is on the market for £14million.

With their Bentley now gone from their driveway, it marks the end of a stay that hasn’t quite been as calm as the leafy streets of Primrose Hill might suggest.

Their arrival got off to a heated start after being locked in a fierce bidding war with fashion icons Dolce and Gabbana for a nearby house (the same house that recently caught fire while being renovated).

Still perhaps reeling from their loss, in August this paper then reported how the couple’s second-choice home was swarmed by armed police after a passer-by spotted a machine gun lying on a table through her basement window.

The weapon, later found to be decommissioned, was intended for a peace charity’s art exhibition.

And if armed police surrounding their home wasn’t enough, their des res was almost ground-zero for Primrose Hill’s self-confessed “middle-aged ravers”.

In October, this paper reported how jeweller Jeremy Morris and wife Erin Morris had infuriated neighbours with rowdy all-night parties at their home, very near to the Taylor-Johnsons’.

Neighbours, such as TV star Matthew Wright, were forced to wear ear plugs to bed to cope with thumping “techno” music.

While Mrs Morris apologised to fellow residents, her husband told The Times newspaper this week: “They are very difficult neighbours in Primrose Hill. It is what it is. There’s no way I’m turning the volume down.” An irate Matthew Wright tweeted in response: “T**ts threaten more loud parties to annoy ‘difficult’ neighbours kept awake till 5am midweek by their s**t music!”

It’s a wonder the Taylor-Johnsons ever stayed...