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Grand Designs

Grand Designs

1999 - 2025

The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven, East Sussex

29th April 1999
Episode 1
A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.

The English Barn, Oxfordshire

6th May 1999
Episode 2
Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!

The Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton

13th May 1999
Episode 3
This project was a co-operative venture - 10 young families each put in 30 hours of construction work per week. Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes. A housing association bought the land from the council for £58,000. Paul then worked with the association to put the co-operative together. All the members were people on the council's housing list.

The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham

20th May 1999
Episode 4
Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.

The Eco-House, Suffolk

3rd June 1999
Episode 5
A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.

The Chapel, Cornwall

10th June 1999
Episode 6
Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.

The House of Straw, Islington, North London

17th June 1999
Episode 7
Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.

The Glass-House, Town Fields, Doncaster

24th June 1999
Episode 8
Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.
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British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.

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