Grand Designs

Series 10 Episode 3
8.55PM Sat 11 May 2013

Kevin McCloud recalls the astonishing achievements of Ben Law, a woodman who spent ten years living in a caravan in a west Sussex forest while waiting for planning permission to begin work on a self-sufficient, handmade, cruck-framed wooden house.

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    1. Sat 11 May 2013 Series 10 Episode 3

      Sussex:  Kevin McCloud recalls the astonishing achievements of Ben Law, a woodman who spent ten years living in a caravan…

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    2. Sat 11 May 2013 Series 10 Episode 2

      Peckham:  Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe couldn't afford to buy a house in London, so they decided to build one on a…

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    3. Sat 11 May 2013 Series 10 Episode 1

      Yorkshire:  Kevin returns to the story of Francis Shaw, who bought a crumbling 15th-century peel tower in North Yorkshire…

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    1. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 1 Newhaven

      A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for…

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    2. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 2 Oxford

      Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s…

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    3. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 3 Brighton

      Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who…

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    4. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 4 Amersham

      Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks…

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    5. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 5 Suffolk

      A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.

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    6. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 6 Cornwall

      Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a…

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    7. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 7 Islington

      Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design…

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    8. Grand Designs Series 1 Episode 8 Doncaster

      Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel…

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    1. Series 2 Episode 1 Farnham

      Kevin McCloud meets a woman determined to build the house of her dreams, an enormous Georgian-style mansion in Farnham…

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    2. Series 2 Episode 2 Sussex

      Kevin McCloud follows the construction of a New England style-kit house built on the Sussex Downs that was bought and…

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    3. Series 2 Episode 3 Huddersfield

      Kevin McCloud meets Chris and Jill, who have chosen to build their dream home in Huddersfield by converting a deserted…

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    4. Series 2 Episode 4 Wales

      Kevin McCloud travels to Wales to visit a couple who have decided that their first home will be a 300-year-old ruin in…

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    5. Series 2 Episode 5 Lambourn Valley

      Kevin McCloud meets a couple who plan a very expensive and very experimental design on a virgin building plot in the…

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    6. Series 2 Episode 6 Birmingham

      Kevin McCloud checks out an innovative housing scheme in Birmingham that allows people to build their own homes. The…

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    7. Series 2 Episode 7 London

      Kevin McCloud visits a couple who are looking to build their hi-tech modern house in a quiet north London street.

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    8. Series 2 Episode 8 Devon

      Kevin McCloud visits a couple in Devon who are hoping to convert a traditional barn complete with thatched roof.

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    1. Series 3 Episode 2 Chesterfield

      Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have their hearts set on converting a disused industrial waterworks in the…

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    2. Series 3 Episode 3 Sussex

      Kevin McCloud follows Ben Law as he attempts to build his dream home: a handmade, cruck-framed wooden house, totally…

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    3. Series 3 Episode 4 Surrey

      Philip and Andrea Traill have ambitious plans for their Grade II Listed Victorian timber-clad barn but their plan to…

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    4. Series 3 Episode 5 Peterborough

      Kevin McCloud joins a Peterborough couple as they seek to realise their Grand Design of a very modern home in a…

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    5. Series 3 Episode 6 Hackney

      Kevin McCloud joins John and Eleni Flood as they attempt to turn their cluttered and cramped Victorian terraced house…

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    6. Series 3 Episode 7 Cumbria

      Kevin McCloud meets keen environmentalists Helen Gould and Phil Reddy, who are building a home in the Cumbrian…

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    7. Series 3 Episode 8 Hereford

      Kevin McCloud travels to Hereford to meet a very young couple who are building their first home, in the centre of an…

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    1. Series 4 Episode 1 Waterloo

      Kevin McCloud looks at a couple's plans to turn a crumbling, disused violin factory in central London into a Manhattan…

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    2. Series 4 Episode 2 Esher, Huf Haus

      Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have built houses before, but never on this scale. Their new 'Huf Haus' is designed…

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    3. Series 4 Episode 4 Edinburgh

      Kevin McCloud meets a couple planning to buy a wreck of an old stone building in Leith, Edinburgh, to turn into their…

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    4. Series 4 Episode 5 Clapham

      Kevin McCloud meets Anjana and David Devoy who, having outgrown their tiny Victorian house in Clapham, plan to build a…

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    5. Series 4 Episode 6 Hastings

      Former Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins and his partner Darron have spent years dreaming of building a modernist…

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    6. Series 4 Episode 7 Glasgow

      Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have found a plot with a view to die for on the west coast of Scotland. The trouble…

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    7. Series 4 Episode 8 Dorset

      Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have spent 15 years planning their dream home - an exotic and inspired wooden-framed…

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    1. Series 5 Episode 1 Peckham

      Kevin McCloud meets Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe, who can't afford to buy a house in London and have decided to…

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    2. Series 5 Episode 2 Gloucester

      Kevin McCloud follows Jeremy and Louise Brown as they try to bring their Grade II Listed 16th-century Gloucestershire…

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    3. Series 5 Episode 3 Kent

      John Cadney is building an environmentally-friendly, four-bedroom log cabin in Kent. But how will he cope with a house…

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    4. Series 5 Episode 4 Devon

      Kevin McCloud meets Pat Becker, who lives in a large Georgian house in Devon. But now that her family have flown the…

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    5. Series 5 Episode 5 Belfast

      Thomas and Dervla O'Hare are building a spectacular split-level home cascading down an almost vertical hillside in…

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    6. Series 5 Episode 6 Exmouth

      Kevin McCloud meets Julie and Mark Veysey, whose Grand Design is a stunning Miami-style beach house on a beachfront…

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    7. Series 5 Episode 7 Carmarthen

      Kevin meets Andrew and Lowri Davies who have embarked on a project to build an environmentally-friendly farmhouse in…

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    8. Series 5 Episode 8 Revisit: Clapham

      Anjana and David Devoy started building a contemporary home that curved around a protected chestnut tree in their…

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    9. Series 5 Episode 9 Killearn

      Kevin McCloud meets Jim and Simone Fairfull, who are building a spectacular light-filled glass pavilion floating over a…

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    10. Kevin Series 5 Episode 10 Ross

      Kevin McCloud meets Jane and Robert Ellis who are planning a mouth-wateringly contemporary conversion of a 300-year-old…

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    11. Kevin Series 5 Episode 11 Stirling

      After 20 years travelling, Theo and Elaine Leijser have decided to settle down in the beautiful Campsie Fells in…

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    12. Series 5 Episode 12 Ashford

      Kevin McCloud meets Denise and Bruno Del Tufo, who have ambitious plans for a concrete water tower sitting in their…

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    13. Series 5 Episode 13 Revisit: Creuse

      Denise Daniel and Doug Ibbs gave up everything to start a new life in central France. Having fallen in love with a…

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    14. Series 5 Episode 14 Revisit: Les Gets

      Kevin McCloud returns to the ski resort of Les Gets in the French Alps where Nicky and James Dobree turned a…

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    15. Series 5 Episode 15 Exeter

      Kevin McCloud meets Peter and Christine Benjamin who live in an Edwardian manor house but have decided to downsize and…

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    16. Series 5 Episode 16 Yorkshire

      A heroic battle to save a crumbling, romantic 14th-century castle in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

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    17. Series 5 Episode 17 Hampshire

      Cheryl and Alex Reay's medieval thatched cottage in Hampshire burned down and, to make matters worse, their insurance…

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    18. Series 5 Episode 18 Medway

      Chris Miller and his wife Sze Liu Laine are taking on a unique build. They have just £50,000 pounds to build an…

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    19. Series 5 Episode 19 Bournemouth

      Katrin and James Gray have found a unique plot to build their dream home, a redundant solarium on top of a block of…

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    20. Series 5 Episode 20 Revisit: Carmarthen

      Kevin McCloud returns to visit Andrew and Lowri Davies and their two boys to see if their environmentally-friendly…

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    21. Series 5 Episode 21 Birmingham

      Builder Dean Marks and his family always dreamt of converting a church, so when St Martins came on the market, he…

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    22. Series 5 Episode 22 Guildford

      Kevin McCloud meets Andrew and Helen Berry, whose passion for Art Deco has inspired them to try and recreate all the…

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    23. Series 5 Episode 23 Revisit: Peckham

      Engineering whiz Monty Ravenscroft built an extraordinary experimental home in Peckham. Kevin returns to see how it…

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    24. Series 5 Episode 24 Revisit: Glasgow

      Kevin McCloud revisits Tony and Jo Moffat in their spectacular avant garde house on the west coast of Scotland.

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    25. Series 5 Episode 25 Cambridgeshire

      Kelly and Masoko Neville are building not just a spectacular oak frame and straw bale house, but a whole new…

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    26. Series 5 Episode 26 Revisit: Tuscany

      Kevin McCloud revisits Janne and Howard and their ongoing conversion of a derelict 1,000-year-old castle in Tuscany.

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    27. Series 5 Episode 27 London

      Kevin McCloud meets master carpenter Bill Bradley and his wife Sarah, who are building two high-spec finished timber…

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    28. Series 5 Episode 28 Revisit: Puglia

      Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton, who bought a derelict olive farm in Puglia, with plans…

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    29. Series 5 Episode 29 Revisit: Peterborough

      Kevin McCloud drops in at John and Terri Westlake's self-built, contemporary wooden home, which has a wall made…

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    30. Series 5 Episode 30 Revisit: Surrey

      Kevin McCloud revisits Philip Trail and his wife Angela who moved to stress-free Surrey and renovated a 150-year-old…

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    1. Series 6 Episode 1 Cheltenham

      Kevin McCloud meets a couple building an ultra modern, low maintenance home in the back garden of their elegant Regency…

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    2. Series 6 Episode 3 Bristol

      Commercial architect Martin Pease embarks on a personal project of building a home in Bristol for his family, with a…

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    3. Series 6 Episode 4 Monmouth

      Inspired by their love of gothic architecture and horror movies, Jo and Shaun Bennett decide to build an Addams…

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    4. Series 6 Episode 5 Midlothian

      Pru and Richard Irvine plan to build a bespoke family home in the Midlothian countryside, but the plot of land is an…

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    5. Series 6 Episode 6 Bath

      Bath may be famous for its Georgian architecture, but Tiffany Wood and her husband Jonny have chosen it as the location…

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    6. Series 6 Episode 7 Maidstone

      Bill and Jean Letley of Maidstone are not only building a new bungalow in their back garden, but also embracing…

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    7. Series 6 Episode 8 Chilterns

      Chris, Jo and their two children head for the Chiltern Hills, South Oxfordshire, to build their dream house - a replica…

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    8. walton-huf-edam Series 6 Episode 9 Revisit: Walton Huf Haus

      Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with…

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    9. Series 6 Episode 10 Revisit: Cumbria

      Five years on, Kevin McCloud goes back to the wilds of Cumbria to see how the Reddy family have adapted to their…

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    10. Series 6 Episode 11 Revisit: Cambridgeshire

      Kelly and Masoko Neville built an oak framed, straw baled house in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Kevin McCloud goes to see…

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    11. Series 6 Episode 12 Revisit: Sussex

      It took ten years to get permission for Ben Law's self-sufficient woodland cottage. Now that he's built it, using 1,000…

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    12. Series 6 Episode 13 Somerset

      London couple Ian and Sophie Cooper plan to restore a 200-year-old listed industrial building in an area of outstanding…

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    13. Series 6 Episode 14 Newport

      Sarah and Dean Berry escaped their council estate roots in Newport for London, but now they've moved back to Wales and…

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    14. Series 6 Episode 15 Brighton

      Barry Surtees, who lives in Brighton's most moneyed suburb, decides to build a four storey modern mansion, complete…

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    15. Series 6 Episode 16 Newcastle

      Kevin follows the epic story of the longest ever build in Grand Design's history.

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    16. Series 6 Episode 17 Yorkshire

      Kevin McCloud retuns to meet Francis Shaw who has been restoring a 15th century peel tower in the heart of the…

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    17. Series 6 Episode 18 Revisit: Hampshire

      Alex and Cheryl moved to the New Forest to restore a medieval thatched cottage. Kevin McCloud returns to see if, after…

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    18. Series 6 Episode 19 Revisit: Killearn

      Kevin McCloud revisits a Scottish loch-side pavilion to see if it delivered its promise for Jim Fairfull: a cure for…

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    19. Series 6 Episode 20 Revisit: Midlothian

      Kevin revisits Pru and Richard Irvine who built a modern house on an old industrial site complete with lime kilns.

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    20. Series 6 Episode 21 Revisit: Amersham Water Tower

      Kevin catches up with one of Grand Design's first ever projects, Andrew Tate and Deborah Mills' 100-foot-tall water…

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    21. Series 6 Episode 22 Revisit: Belfast

      Kevin catches up with Thomas and Dervla O'Hare who built a spectacular home on a hillside in Belfast.

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    1. Series 7 Episode 1 Weald of Kent

      Architect Richard Hawkes and his wife Sophie have plans for the good life in Kent. Their dream house is an ambitious…

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    2. Series 7 Episode 2 Brittany

      Daren Howarth and Adi Nortje are keen to build an earth-sheltered home from recycled materials in Brittany. The house…

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    3. Series 7 Episode 3 Marlborough

      Kevin McCloud meets dairy farmer Andrew Ainslie and his artist wife Meryl, who run a gallery on their farm in Wiltshire…

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    4. Series 7 Episode 4 Hertfordshire

      Kevin meets Celia and Diana, who plan a state-of-the-art home that will be the world's first computer-cut house.

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    5. Series 7 Episode 5 Ipswich

      Jonathan and Lindsay want to build a house that's exciting to look at, cheap to run, and ecologically sound. But the…

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    6. Series 7 Episode 6 Kensington

      Claire and Ian try to build a home big enough for a disco on a small plot at the end of a London mews. But as angry…

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    7. Series 7 Episode 7 Herefordshire

      This edition follows the extraordinary story of estate manager Ed Waghorn and his wife Rowena, who live a virtually…

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    8. Series 7 Episode 8 Revisit: Brittany

      Kevin catches up with Daren and Adi in France, and their extraordinary, earth-sheltered home.

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    9. Series 7 Episode 9 Revisit: London

      Kevin catches up with master carpenter Bill in south London to see if his dream of a mortgage-free existence has come…

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    10. Series 7 Episode 10 Revisit: Lot

      Kevin revisits Mark and Debbie in the Lot region of France.

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    11. Series 7 Episode 11 Revisit: Weald of Kent

      Kevin returns to the Weald of Kent and one of the most innovative houses ever featured on Grand Designs - a highly…

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    12. Series 7 Episode 12 Revisit: Lake District

      Kevin revisits Robert and Milla a year after their ambitious Lake District eco home seemed on the verge of disaster.

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    13. Series 7 Episode 13 Headcorn

      Mimi d'Costa and her husband Andre have moved to the Kent countryside and bought a large plot of land to build a home…

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    14. Series 7 Episode 14 Cotswolds

      Two architects attempt to build England's first accredited passive house, underneath a ruined 300-year-old barn in the…

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    15. Series 7 Episode 15 West Cumbria

      Kevin meets Alan who has invented his own revolutionay way of making a house where every piece is put together on site…

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    16. Series 7 Episode 17 Braintree

      Artists Freddie Robins and Ben Coode-Adams are leaving their modest urban flat to convert a huge Grade II-listed…

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    17. Series 7 Episode 18 Cornwall

      Stonemason Adam Purchase and his partner Nicola Brennan have 12 months to convert a silver-mine engine-house in…

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    18. Series 7 Episode 19 Woodbridge

      Tired of living in draughty Victorian houses in the city, Lucie Fairweather and Nat McBride have returned to their home…

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    19. Series 7 Episode 20 Revisit: Headcorn

      There aren't many people who would take on the role of project managing an ambitious, minimalist eco-build with little…

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    20. Series 7 Episode 21 Revisit: West Cumbria

      Kevin revisits Alan and Judith, who in 2009 began constructing their prototype prefab home in Cumbria. Was Alan able to…

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    21. Series 7 Episode 22 Revisit: Ashford

      Kevin revisits Denise and Bruno Del Tufo who six years ago set about transforming a concrete water tower in their back…

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    22. Series 7 Episode 26 Isle of Wight

      Architectural designer Lincoln Miles and his wife, artist Lisa Traxler, take on a very ambitious bungalow conversion on…

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    23. Series 7 Episode 27 Stowmarket

      In Suffolk Simon and Jill hope to restore one of the country's smallest surviving medieval guild halls to its original…

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    24. Series 7 Episode 28 Lake District

      Robert and Milla are redeveloping an 80s house overlooking Lake Windermere in the Lake District. But the radical build…

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    25. Series 7 Episode 29 Lizard Peninsula

      Interior designer Kathryn Tyler has decided that the best way to get onto the property ladder is to design and build…

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    26. Series 7 Episode 30 Tenby

      The old lifeboat station in Tenby was home to the brave souls of the RNLI for over 100 years.

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    27. Series 7 Episode 31 Bromley

      Paul and Penny are tearing down their million pound home in south London to build a contemporary mansion. But the…

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    1. Series 10 Episode 1 Yorkshire

      Kevin returns to the story of Francis Shaw, who bought a crumbling 15th-century peel tower in North Yorkshire that was…

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    2. Series 10 Episode 2 Peckham

      Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe couldn't afford to buy a house in London, so they decided to build one on a small…

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    3. Series 10 Episode 3 Sussex

      Kevin McCloud recalls the astonishing achievements of Ben Law, a woodman who spent ten years living in a caravan in a…

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