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Autumn 2017

Malvern

Grand Designs Malvern

Ex-RAF pilot Jon and GP Gill build a New Zealand style hill house on the steep slopes of the Malvern hills in Worcestershire. It proves an emotional rollercoaster ride. The schedule slips and costs snowball, leaving Jon struggling to cope.

South Hertfordshire

Grand Designs South Hertfordshire

Chris and Kayo, and their designer Rogan, build a unique Roman courtyard inspired family home near an abbey in South Hertfordshire. Constrained by stringent planning conditions, will Chris and Kayo even like their radical home when it’s finished?

Peak District

Grand Designs Peak District

Fred and Saffron build an innovative new family home in the Peak District - on a 30 degree slope. It has a traditional top floor in plain sight, with two post-industrial styled floors buried into the thick sloping Derbyshire limestone below.

Haringey

Grand Designs Haringey

Neurologists Penny and Mark reconstruct a derelict old Victorian gatehouse on a steep hill in North London, adding a giant, contemporary black zinc clad box at the back and thus marrying their respective loves of the new and the old.

Herne Hill

Grand Designs Herne Hill

Designers Beth and Andrew rescue a crumbling old Victorian dairy in South East London and convert it into a family house - retaining as much decay as they can. But can they combine ‘shabby chic’ with a home fit for modern living?

East London

Grand Designs East London

Joe and Lina take on the London property market. At 83 square metres their clever space saving £160k budgeted home may be the smallest two bedroom house that you’re allowed to build in the capital, but it’ll be theirs, not a landlords.

County Down

Grand Designs County Down

Young architect and shed fanatic Micah turns a dilapidated old agricultural building in the rolling countryside of County Down into an innovative upside down 4 bedroom mega-shed for himself, his wife Elaine and their two young boys.

Blackdown Hills

Grand Designs Blackdown Hills

Taking inspiration from an ammonite shell they found on their land in the Blackdown Hills in Devon, engineer Stephen and his horticulturalist wife Elizabeth build an astonishing curving house that looks like a giant coiled snake in a field.

Herefordshire II

Grand Designs Herefordshire II

In 2007 Ed and Rowena started building a handcrafted five bedroom house on their smallholding in Herefordshire. Four years in, the house was still a shell, but Kevin McCloud returned in 2012 to follow Ed’s masterpiece to completion.

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