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Grand Designs

TV·1999–present·27 seasons, 255 episodes·Channel 4·1h·8.0

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Kevin McCloud follows intrepid individuals trying to design and build their dream home.

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  1. 01Grand Designs S16E02East Sussex - The Boat HouseS16E02 · 9.0Boat enthusiast James Strangeways invites Kevin McCloud to survey progress on the construction of his new home, which his architect nephew Ben Hebblethwaite has designed to be as 'un-houselike' as possible. James has spent the past 35 years travelling the canals and waterways of Britain, and despite never liking houses, has decided now is the time to put down roots on dry land. Ben hoped a home standing on stilts above a marsh, and incorporating ship-like qualities such as a keel-shaped roof, will be enough to satisfy his boat-mad uncle. However, Ben's contractor goes into liquidation a few months into the project, taking £87,000 of the £300,000 budget, and when James decides to make a few tweaks to the design, alarm-bells begin to ring for the young architect.
  2. 02Grand Designs S17E08The Wirral: Floating Timber HouseS17E08 · 9.0How do you turn your small bungalow from a 1960s dormer into a generous 21st-century piece of slick architecture, all for £175k? Stuart and Rosie Treasurer from the Wirral plan to decapitate their bungalow - cutting the roof off to leave just the walls - then balance a big new floating timber box on top, containing five bedrooms. To keep costs down, they take on the plumbing and electrics themselves, spend as little as they can on insulation, and leave elements of the building unfinished. The hope is to get a stylish industrial look in the process. But the stress levels spiral when their neighbours grumble about the ultra-modern wooden box going up in the middle of their traditional suburb.
  3. 03Chichester, West Sussex: Floating HouseS22E05 · 9.0Dan and Nina want to build a unique family home, but their plot is dominated by a pond filled with local drainage. Will their West Sussex house be sublime and sleek or a Shrek-like swamp?

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Episodes by season

Season018Episodes1999AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Newhaven: The Timber Frame Kit HouseApril 29, 1999Tim Cox and Julia Brock want to build their home on a clifftop in Newhaven.
  2. S01E02Berkshire: English BarnMay 6, 1999Kevin travels to Berkshire to see the conversion of an English barn by Denys and Marjorie Randolph.
  3. S01E03Brighton: The Co-Operative BuildMay 13, 1999Started in 1998, this development of ten timber frame houses is based on the Walter Segal method of construction and was led by Jenny and Pa
  4. S01E04Amersham: The Water TowerMay 20, 1999Kevin travels to Amersham to see the conversion of an old water tower into a stylish new home by Deborah Mills and architect Andrew Tate.
  5. S01E05Suffolk: The Eco-HouseJune 3, 1999Kevin travels to Suffolk to see the build of an environmentally friendly house by former tax inspector Rob Roy. Episode Revisited 15 March 2
  6. S01E06Cornwall: The ChapelJune 10, 1999Kevin travels to Cornwall to see the conversion of an old chapel by Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons.
  7. S01E07Islington: The House of StrawJune 17, 1999In Islington, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth are building a house of sandbags and straw. Episode Revisited 13 March 2001.
  8. S01E08Doncaster: The Glass HouseJune 24, 1999Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood build a glass and steel home in Doncaster. Episode Revisited 8 November 2001.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0217Episodes2001–02AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Revisited - Islington: The House of Straw (Revisited from S1 Ep7)March 13, 2001Kevin McCloud revisits Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth in Islington, London. Will they have realised their dream of using straw bales in
  2. S02E02Revisited - Brighton: The Co-Op (Revisited from S1 Ep3)March 14, 2001Kevin McCloud revisits a group of people in a Brighton co-operative who are building their own homes and the homes of their neighbours.
  3. S02E03Farnham: The Regency VillaJuly 17, 2001Helen and Mark had always dreamed of owning a Georgian house but knew they couldn't afford the genuine article. So they decided to build the
  4. S02E04Sussex: The New England Gable HouseJuly 24, 2001With a plot of land in Sussex overlooking the South Downs, newly-weds Jane and Willem wanted a house that would be atmospheric and open to t
  5. S02E05Huddersfield, Netherton: The Wool MillJuly 31, 2001A derelict woollen mill in a Yorkshire village may not say 'modernist' to everyone. But Chris and Gill - who, fortunately, run their own spe
  6. S02E06Wales, Brecon Beacons: The Isolated CottageAugust 7, 2001An isolated hilltop in the Brecon Beacons might seem an inhospitable place for a couple's first home. But Adrian and Corinna both grew up in
  7. S02E07Lambourn Valley: The Cruciform HouseAugust 14, 2001When Rupert and Julie bought a hilltop site in the Berkshire Downs, they were determined to build a house that would make the most of the co
  8. S02E08Birmingham: The Self-BuildAugust 21, 2001In May 1999, 11 people in Bordesley, West Birmingham, set out to build their own homes. Few of them had any professional experience in const
  9. S02E09London: The Jewel BoxAugust 28, 2001Sarah, a maker of modern jewellery, and Coneyl, a freelance photographer, wanted a modern home from which they could both work. But they als
  10. S02E10Devon: The Derelict BarnsSeptember 4, 2001Sue and Martin took a holistic approach when they converted a pair of Devon barns into a family home. They believed that the house should lo
  11. S02E11Revisited - Doncaster: The Glass-House (Revisited from S1 Ep8)November 8, 2001Kevin McCloud travels back to Doncaster to catch up with self-builders Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood and their futuristic glass and steel
  12. S02E12Revisited - Suffolk: The Eco-House (Revisited from S1 Ep5)November 15, 2001Kevin McCloud travels to Suffolk to revisit a couple who dreamed of building a 100% environmentally friendly house. How far have they manage
  13. S02E13Revisited - Birmingham: The Self-Build (Revisited from S2 Ep6)November 29, 2001Kevin McCloud revisits an innovative housing scheme in Birmingham. Just over two years ago a group of 11 men and women agreed to build, not
  14. S02E14Revisited - Brecon Beacons, Wales: The Isolated Cottage (Revisited from S2 Ep4)September 10, 2002Kevin McCloud returns to Wales to visit Adrian and Corrina, who have decided that their first home will be a 300-year-old ruin. The cottage
  15. S02E15Revisited - London: The Dilapidated Georgian House (Revisited from Grand Designs Indoors - 15 March 2001)September 17, 2002Kevin McCloud revisits Sharon and Tony Relph a couple who hoped to restore a dilapidated Georgian house in London to its former glory. Once
  16. S02E16Revisited - Coleshill, Amersham: The Water Tower (Revisited from S1 Ep4)September 24, 2002Kevin McCloud returns for a second visit to The Water Tower. As one of Grand Design's first projects, Andrew Tate and Deborah Mills found a
  17. S02E17Revisited - Devon: The Derelict Barns (Revisited from S2 Ep8)October 1, 2002Kevin McCloud returns to south Devon to revisit Sue Charman and Martin Whitlock whose dream was to create a family home which feels part of

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0312Episodes2003AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Peterborough: The Wooden BoxFebruary 12, 2003Kevin McCloud is in Cambridgeshire, where John and Terri Westlake intend to knock down a derelict house and commission commercial architects
  2. S03E02Chesterfield: The Water-WorksFebruary 19, 2003The 1930s derelict water works Chris Jones and Leanne Smith fell in love with was huge and its design had clearly been inspired by Gilbert S
  3. S03E03Sussex: The Woodsmans CottageFebruary 26, 2003For 10 years, Ben Law lived in tents and caravans in a wood in West Sussex. As a woodsman, he needed and wanted to live among the trees, but
  4. S03E04Surrey: The Victorian Threshing BarnMarch 5, 2003Philip and Angela Traill set out to convert a 150-year-old barn near Surrey. The barn is grade two listed which means they have to keep the
  5. S03E05Buckinghamshire: The Inverted-Roof HouseMarch 12, 2003Tom and Judy Perry wanted more than just a home for themselves and their two children. On a site of outstanding natural beauty in Buckingham
  6. S03E06Hackney: The Terrace ConversionSeptember 17, 2003After 10 years of living in a small house in east London, John Flood and Eleni Skordaki hankered after modern, open-plan living. They didn't
  7. S03E07Cumbria: The Underground HouseSeptember 24, 2003Helen Gould and Phil Reddy wanted their home to make the most of spectacular views, but they also wanted it to be ecologically friendly. The
  8. S03E08Herefordshire: The Traditional CottageOctober 1, 2003Merry's family have been Herefordshire builders for generations, so she knew that the county was rich in traditional building crafts. She an
  9. S03E09Revisited - Lambourn Valley: The Cruciform House (Revisited from S2 Ep5)October 8, 2003Kevin McCloud catches up with Rupert and Julie Upton. The three-year build on the picturesque slopes of the Berkshire Downs was wracked with
  10. S03E102nd Revisit - Islington: The House of Straw (Revisited from S1 Ep7 & S2 Ep11)October 15, 2003Kevin McCloud catches up with Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till, who constructed their experimental central London house out of straw bales
  11. S03E11Revisited - Sunderland: The Former Electricity Sub-Station (Revisited from Grand Designs Indoors - 1 March 2001)October 22, 2003Kevin McCloud revisits a couple who converted a disused electricity substation in Sunderland into a four-bedroom family home, armed with jus
  12. S03E12Revisited - Berkshire: The English Barn (Revisited from S1 Ep2)October 29, 2003Kevin McCloud catches up on retired couple Denys and Marjorie Randolph, who had decided to embark on their final building project, a brand n

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season048Episodes2004AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01Lambeth: The Violin FactoryJanuary 21, 2004Louise and Milko Ostendorf wanted to build the home of a lifetime. Milko's job as a well-paid City banker meant they could think big, so Lou
  2. S04E02Walton on Thames: Customised German Kit HouseJanuary 28, 2004David and Greta Iredale loved their home, a modernist structure in Surrey that they had built themselves almost 40 years ago. It was filled
  3. S04E03Revisited - Buckinghamshire: The Inverted-Roof House (Revisited from S3 Ep5)February 4, 2004Tom and Judy Perry wanted more than just a home for themselves and their two children. On a site of outstanding natural beauty in Buckingham
  4. S04E04Leith: 19th Century Sandstone HouseFebruary 11, 2004When Reuben Welch and April Marr came across a ruined 19th-century house amid the tower blocks of Leith, Edinburgh, they saw it as their fut
  5. S04E05Clapham: The Curved HouseFebruary 18, 2004David and Anjana Devoy's tiny coach house was proving too small for them and their two children. So they decided to build a new house in the
  6. S04E06Sussex: The Modernist Sugar CubeFebruary 25, 2004Tom Watkins and Darron Copping wanted to build a house that would be home to them, their art collection and their two large dogs. Darron's p
  7. S04E07Argyll: The Oak-Framed HouseMarch 3, 2004Tony and Jo Moffat, musicians with Scottish Opera, had long dreamed of a home in the countryside. They found a perfect site on the Clyde est
  8. S04E08Dorset: An Idiosyncratic HomeMarch 10, 2004Amid 55 acres of organic farmland in the New Forest, Lizzie Vann and Mike Thrasher set out to build an idiosyncratic home. They wanted a hou

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season0511Episodes2005AiredSeason avg
  1. S05E01Revisited - Edinburgh:19th Century Sandstone House (Revisited from S4 Ep4)April 6, 2005April Marr and Reuben Welch. Kevin McCloud revisits a thrill-seeking couple who bought a derelict 19th-century stone house in Edinburgh with
  2. S05E02Peckham: The sliding glass roof houseApril 13, 2005Here we see an extraordinary and inventive project in South London. This house proves that even in the most crowded areas of our cities, the
  3. S05E03Gloucester: The 16th Century FarmhouseApril 20, 2005When lawyers Jeremy and Louise Brown walked into Upthorpe Farm in Gloucester, they couldn't believe their eyes. It was like stepping back in
  4. S05E04Kent: Finnish Log CabinApril 27, 2005John Cadney and Marnie Moon have never had a permanent home. So John, a carpenter, has rolled up his sleeves and decided to build a house fo
  5. S05E05Revisited - Hackney: The Terrace Conversion (Revisited from S3 Ep6)May 4, 2005Kevin McCloud revisits John Flood and Eleni Skordaki, who completely gutted their Victorian terraced house in Hackney, London, to create an
  6. S05E06Revisited - Lambeth: The Violin Factory (Revisited from S4 Ep1)October 13, 2005An update on Louise and Milko Ostendorf, who embarked on a project to convert an old violin factory in London into a luxury home. The work w
  7. S05E07Shaldon: Shaped Like a Curvy SeashellOctober 19, 2005For the last 20 years, Pat Becker has been living in a large Georgian family house overlooking the sea in Devon. Now that her family have fl
  8. S05E08Revisited - Sussex: The Woodsmans Cottage (Revisited from S3 Ep3)October 26, 2005Kevin McCloud returns to West Sussex to see how Ben Law's woodsman's cottage has changed. The house was built on a low budget, using methods
  9. S05E09Belfast: A 21st Century Answer to the Roman VillaNovember 2, 2005This is Belfast, one of the great cities of the industrial revolution, and home to Thomas and Dervla O'Hare. They've lived here for 18 years
  10. S05E10Devon: The Miami-Style Beach HouseNovember 9, 2005Kevin McCloud meets Julie and Mark Veysey, whose Grand Design is a stunning Miami-style beach house on a beachfront plot overlooking the sou
  11. S05E11Carmarthen: The Eco-HouseNovember 16, 2005Andrew and Lowri Davies embark on a project to build an environmentally friendly farmhouse in rural Wales. Encouraged by their architect, th

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

Season068Episodes2006AiredSeason avg
  1. S06E01Killearn: The Loch HouseApril 5, 2006Jim Fairfull considers himself a very lucky guy. He was out fishing with a friend when he came across a beautiful, secluded loch. It's a mag
  2. S06E02Ross-on-Wye: The Contemporary Barn ConversionApril 12, 2006Robert and Jane Ellis decided to convert an isolated hilltop ruin in the Forest of Dean in Herefordshire. Adding modern steel and glass they
  3. S06E03Stirling: The Contemporary Cedar Clad HomeApril 19, 2006Theo and Elaine Leijser hoped to bring a bit of Dutch style to Scotland in the building of their first family home – a colourful, contempora
  4. S06E04Ashford: Water Tower ConversionApril 26, 2006For six years Bruno and Denise Del Tufo stared at the large concrete water tower at the bottom of their garden trying to figure out what to
  5. S06E05Revisited - Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House (Revisited from Grand Designs Abroad - 29 September 2004)May 3, 2006Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs. The couple, in their mid-50s and from Dorset, bought a 19th-century manor house i
  6. S06E06Revisited - Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet (Revisited from Grand Designs Abroad - 20 October 2004)May 10, 2006Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree. Nicky was raised in France, James in Beirut – both have fond memories of the mountains as chi
  7. S06E07Exeter: Garden House aka "Mies van der Rohe Inspired HouseMay 17, 2006Charting the building plans of Peter and Christine Benjamin, who are hoping to construct a small retirement home within a walled garden in t
  8. S06E08Revisited - Clapham: The Curved House (Revisited from S4 Ep5)May 23, 2006Kevin McCloud revisits David and Anjana Devoy's who's tiny coach house was proving too small for them and their two children. So they decide

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

Season0712Episodes2007AiredSeason avg
  1. S07E01Skipton: The 14th Century CastleFebruary 28, 2007Every Englishman's home is his castle, but for Francis Shaw this is quite literally true. He and his wife, Karen, and their two young daught
  2. S07E02Hampshire: The Thatched CottageMarch 7, 2007Eight years ago Alex and Cheryl Reay left London for a new life in the New Forest. They bought a run down medieval thatched cottage and lovi
  3. S07E03Medway: The Eco-BargeMarch 14, 2007Chris Miller and his wife Sze Liu Lai lived in a tiny flat in East London with their two children Alexion and Tayszea. It was very tight for
  4. S07E04Bournemouth: The Bournemouth PenthouseMarch 21, 2007James and Katrin Gray live in Bournemouth on the south coast. James runs his own book distribution business and Katrin works for an investme
  5. S07E05Revisited - Carmarthen: The Eco-House (Revisited from S5 Ep11)March 28, 2007Kevin McCloud returns to rural Wales to visit Andrew and Lowri Davies, who dreamt of replacing their cramped cottage with an environmentally
  6. S07E06Tipton: The Birmingham ChurchApril 4, 2007Dean Marks has dreamt of living in a church for as long as he can remember. After searching for the right building for years, he came across
  7. S07E07Guildford: The Art Deco HouseApril 11, 2007When Pilots Andrew Berry and his wife Helen bought their cottage near Guildford in Surrey 7 years ago they always planned to add a small ext
  8. S07E08Revisited - Peckham: The Sliding Glass Roof House (Revisited from S5 Ep2)April 18, 2007Here we see an extraordinary and inventive project in South London revisited. This house proves that even in the most crowded areas of our c
  9. S07E09Revisited - Argyll: The Oak-Framed House (Revisited from S4 Ep7)April 25, 2007Musicians Tony and Jo Moffat began building a home on the west coast of Scotland, investing in an architect who developed an experimental de
  10. S07E10Cambridgeshire: The Cambridgeshire Eco HomeMay 2, 2007Kelly and Masoko Neville set about building not just a spectacular oak frame and straw bale house, but a whole new way of life in the Cambri
  11. S07E11Revisited - Tuscany: The Tuscan Castle (Revisited from Grand Designs Abroad - 13 October 2004)May 9, 2007Kevin McCloud meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany. Since
  12. S07E12Dulwich: The Glass & Timber HouseMay 16, 2007Bill and Sarah Bradley are a couple whose dream of living mortgage-free rests on building not one, but two timber framed houses in south Lon

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

Season0812Episodes2008AiredSeason avg
  1. S08E01Cheltenham: The Underground HouseJanuary 16, 2008A couple, Zoe and Tim Bawtree, who live in a Regency house in Cheltenham that is expensive to run decide to sell up and build a modern low m
  2. S08E02Oxford: The Decagon HouseJanuary 23, 2008Kevin McCloud meets a commercial surveyor, Henry Chopping, with an £800,000 budget who is planning to build an unusual home in Oxford. His c
  3. S08E03Bristol: The Modernist Sugar CubeJanuary 30, 2008An architect, Martin Pease (and Katherine) plans an unusual home for his family where everything is white and open plan. He calls upon his e
  4. S08E04Herefordshire: The Gothic HouseFebruary 6, 2008A couple, Jo and Shaun Bennett, with a love of gothic architecture and horror movies plan to use their budget of £250,000 to build an Addams
  5. S08E05Midlothian: The Lime Kiln HouseFebruary 13, 2008A couple, Pru and Richard Irvine, decide to build a family home on an industrial site in the Midlothian countryside complete with lime kilns
  6. S08E06Bath: The Bath Kit HouseFebruary 20, 2008Rather than go down the traditional building route, Tiffany and Jonny Wood opted for a German pre-fabricated kit house with great green cred
  7. S08E07Revisited - Puglia: An Artists' Retreat (Revisited from Grand Designs Abroad - 22 September 2004)February 27, 2008Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton three years after they bought an olive farm in the Puglia region of Italy and
  8. S08E08Revisited - Peterborough: The Wooden Box (Revisited from S3 Ep1)March 5, 2008Five years ago, John and Terri Westlake built a timber box that even they weren't sure about on the edge of a forest in the middle of open c
  9. S08E09Revisited - Surrey: Customised German Kit House (Revisited from S4 Ep2)March 12, 2008Checking on the progress of a couple, Greta and David Iredale, with a building background who replaced the timber house they designed themse
  10. S08E10Revisited - Surrey: The Victorian Threshing Barn (Revisited from S3 Ep4)March 19, 2008Kevin McCloud returns to a Surrey village, where brain tumour sufferer Philip Traill and his wife Angela created a high-spec contemporary ho
  11. S08E11Revisited - Cumbria: The Underground House (Revisited from S3 Ep7)March 26, 2008Kevin McCloud revisits Helen Gould and Phil Reddy five years after they built an earth-sheltered home in Cumbria. The presenter finds out if
  12. S08E12Maidstone: The Hi Tech BungalowApril 2, 2008In Maidstone, Jean and Bill Letley, a septuagenarian couple plan a highly contemporary bungalow complete with underfloor heating and prototy

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

Season0913Episodes2009AiredSeason avg
  1. S09E01Somerset: The Apprentice StoreJanuary 28, 2009Ian and Sophie Cooper met at university and have since spent their time together enjoying life in London. Ian works as a marketing consultan
  2. S09E02Oxfordshire: The Chilterns Water MillFebruary 4, 2009Inspired by an illustration on a yoghurt pot, Chris Ostwald decides to build a New England-style water mill in the Chilterns, on a hill and
  3. S09E03Newport: The Newport FollyFebruary 11, 2009Sarah and Dean Berry grew up on a council estate in Newport. Having moved away to London and made good, they have now returned home 17 years
  4. S09E04Kent: The Eco ArchFebruary 18, 2009Young architect Richard Hawkes and his wife Sophie have decided to move out of London to live the good life in the Kent countryside. They bu
  5. S09E05Brittany: The Brittany GroundhouseFebruary 25, 2009Daren Howarth and partner Adi Nortje live in Brighton, and are champions of sustainable living. They want to build an earth-sheltered home f
  6. S09E06Wiltshire: The Marlborough Farm HouseMarch 4, 2009Kevin McCloud meets dairy farmer Andrew Ainslie and his artist wife Meryl, who runs a gallery on their farm in Wiltshire. But their farmhous
  7. S09E07Kent: The Headcorn Minimalist HouseMarch 11, 2009Mimi D'Costa and her husband Andre have moved to the Kent countryside to bring up their two boys. They have bought a large plot of land and
  8. S09E08Yorkshire 2009March 25, 2009Kevin returns to visit Kelly and Masoko Neville who set about building not just a spectacular oak frame and straw bale house, but a whole ne
  9. S09E09Revisited - Cambridgeshire: The Cambridgeshire Eco Home (Revisited from S7 Ep10)March 25, 2009In 2005, Kelly and Masoko Neville set about building a spectacular oak framed and straw baled hexagonal house in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Ke
  10. S09E10Brighton: The Brighton Modern MansionApril 8, 2009Barry Surtees, a self-made property developer, his wife Julie and their teenage children live in a large comfortable house in Brighton's mos
  11. S09E11Revisited - Hampshire: The Thatched Cottage (Revisited from S7 Ep2)April 15, 2009Kevin McCloud revisits Alex and Cheryl Reay, who eight years previous had left London for a new life in the New Forest. They bought a run do
  12. S09E12Revisited - Killearn, Scotland: The Loch House (Revisited from S6 Ep1)April 22, 2009In 2005, businessman Jim Fairfull and his wife Simone set out to build a glass pavilion by a loch in Scotland. Jim was suffering from a stre
  13. S09E132nd Revisit - Sussex: The Woodsmans Cottage (Revisited from S3 Ep3 & S5 Ep8)April 29, 2009For 10 years, woodsman Ben Law fought for planning permission to build himself a house in the heart of the woods where he worked. But there

Season 9 ranked & reviewed

Season1014Episodes2010AiredSeason avg
  1. S10E01Isle of Wight: The Tree HouseSeptember 15, 2010Lincoln Miles and his wife Lisa Traxler modernise a stone-clad bungalow on the Isle of Wight.
  2. S10E02Cotswolds: The Stealth HouseSeptember 22, 2010Helen and Chris Seymour Smith get planning permission to build a house in open countryside.
  3. S10E03Woodbridge: The Modest HomeSeptember 29, 2010In Woodbridge, Lucie Fairweather and Nat McBride plan a responsible, low impact, ecologically sensitive home for their young family. Nat tra
  4. S10E04Stowmarket: The Barn & GuildhallOctober 6, 2010Kevin follows Simon and Jill Bennett's conversion of two timber framed barns. However, one has turned out to be a medieval guild hall.
  5. S10E05Ipswich: The Radian HouseOctober 13, 2010Lindsay and Jonathan Belsey hopes to build a house that aesthetically pleasing, cheap to run and ecologically sound.
  6. S10E06Lizard Peninsula: The Scandinavian HouseOctober 20, 2010Following Kathryn Tyler as she designs and builds her Scandinavian-inspired eco house in Falmouth.
  7. S10E07Cumbria: The AdaptahausOctober 27, 2010Alan Dawson attempts to build house like a giant Meccano set, in that he will make the pieces in a workshop and then assemble it all on site
  8. S10E08Lake District: The Dome HouseNovember 3, 2010Robert and Milla Gaukroger plan to extend an old 1980s house overlooking Windermere.
  9. S10E09Revisited - Brittany, France: The Brittany Groundhouse (Revisited from S9 Ep5)November 10, 2010Kevin returns to see how Daren Howarth and Adi Nortje's project has fared four years after they decided to build an earth-sheltered home in
  10. S10E10Revisited - Dulwich: The Glass & Timber House (Revisited from S7 Ep12)November 17, 2010Kevin returns to see whether Bill Bradley has completed the work on his two timber houses in south London.Bill and Sarah Bradley are a coupl
  11. S10E11Revisited - Belfast: A 21st Century Answer to the Roman Villa (Revisited from S5 Ep9)November 24, 2010Six years after his first visit, Kevin returns to see how the O'Hare's fared with their split-level home cascading down a practically vertic
  12. S10E12Revisited - Lot, France: House from Straw (Revisited from Grand Designs Abroad - 15 September 2004)December 1, 2010Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family in France.Mark and Deborah (Debbie) Sampson and daughter, Tilley, like to practice an ecolog
  13. S10E13Coleshill, Amersham - 2nd Revisit: The Water Tower (Revisited from S1 Ep4 and S2 Ep16)December 8, 2010Over ten years ago, as one of Grand Design's first projects, Andrew Tate and Deborah Mills found a site with a monstrous, dilapidated, 100 f
  14. S10E14Revisited - Midlothian, Scotland: The Lime Kiln House (Revisited from S8 Ep5)December 15, 2010Kevin returns to see how Pru and Richard Irvine fared one-and-a-half years after they began building their bespoke home in the Midlothian co

Season 10 ranked & reviewed

Season1112Episodes2011AiredSeason avg
  1. S11E01Grand Designs S11E01Morpeth: The Derelict Mill CottageSeptember 14, 2011Kevin McCloud looks at the transformation of a derelict mill cottage in Northumberland into a contemporary family home, the longest-running
  2. S11E02Grand Designs S11E02London: The Contemporary MansionSeptember 21, 2011Kevin McCloud meets Paul and Penny Denby, who are demolishing their mock-Georgian home on an exclusive south London estate to replace it wit
  3. S11E03Grand Designs S11E03Tenby: The Lifeboat StationSeptember 28, 2011Kevin McCloud meets Tim and Philomena O'Donovan, who are trying to convert a lifeboat station in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, into a contemporary h
  4. S11E04Grand Designs S11E04Essex: The Large Timber-framed BarnOctober 5, 2011Kevin McCloud follows the conversion of a large, Grade II-listed timber-framed barn in Essex into a family home and work-space by artists Fr
  5. S11E05Grand Designs S11E05Herefordshire: The Recycled Timber-framed HouseOctober 12, 2011Kevin McCloud meets estate manager Ed Waghorn and his wife Rowena, a couple living an almost self-sufficient life with their four children o
  6. S11E06Grand Designs S11E06Cornwall: The Dilapidated Engine HouseOctober 19, 2011Stonemason Adam Purchase and his partner Nicola Brennan try to restore a dilapidated Grade II-listed engine house in Cornwall, which was for
  7. S11E07Grand Designs S11E07London: The Disco HomeOctober 26, 2011Kevin McCloud meets Claire Farrow and Ian Hogarth, who are trying to construct a home containing a sauna, spa, dance floor and DJ booth on a
  8. S11E08Revisited - Lake District: The Dome House (Revisited from S10 Ep8)November 2, 2011Kevin McCloud revisits Robert and Milla Gaukroger, who were in danger of their bank foreclosing on their unfinished timber house with views
  9. S11E09Revisited - Kent: The Eco Arch (Revisited from S9 Ep4)November 9, 2011Kevin McCloud revisits an arch-shaped home made of clay tiles in the Weald of Kent, built by Richard Hawkes, who designed the property, and
  10. S11E10Revisited - Ashford, Kent: The Water Tower Conversion (Revisited from S6 Ep4)November 16, 2011Kevin McCloud revisits Denise and Bruno Del Tufo, who hoped to transform a concrete water tower designed by Edwin Lutyens into a contemporar
  11. S11E11Revisited - Cumbria: The Adaptahaus (Revisited from S10 Ep7)November 23, 2011Kevin McCloud revisits Alan and Judith Dawson in west Cumbria, where they began constructing a prefabricated home in 2009. They employed a m
  12. S11E12Revisited - Kent: The Headcorn Minimalist House (Revisited from S9 Ep7)November 30, 2011Kevin McCloud revisits a couple who took on the task of constructing a sustainable two-storey timber house heated by glass panels in the Ken

Season 11 ranked & reviewed

Season1212Episodes2012Aired 6.0Season avg
  1. S12E01Grand Designs S12E01Roscommon, Ireland: Cloontykilla CastleSeptember 12, 2012Kevin McCloud meets more people trying to build dream homes, beginning with Sean Simons, who bought the ruins of Cloontykilla Castle in the
  2. S12E02Grand Designs S12E02Hertfordshire: The Computer-cut HouseSeptember 19, 2012Kevin McCloud meets a pair of civil-partnered university professors who have decided to build their first home from scratch. In addition to
  3. S12E03Grand Designs S12E03Brixton: The Glass Cubes HouseSeptember 26, 2012Mary Martin and Carl Turner want to build a home that resembles a giant stack of glass cubes in Brixton, south London. The couple are hoping
  4. S12E04Grand Designs S12E04Oxfordshire: The Thames BoathouseOctober 10, 2012Kevin McCloud follows Lysette and Nigel Offley, who are knocking down an old Thames boathouse and constructing a cutting-edge home in its pl
  5. S12E05Grand Designs S12E05London: The Derelict Water TowerOctober 17, 2012Kevin McCloud marks the 100th episode with one of the programme's most ambitious projects to date. Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce want to con
  6. S12E06Grand Designs S12E06London: The Edwardian Artist's StudioOctober 24, 2012Kevin McCloud meets Audrey and Jeff, who dream of living in one of west London's most exclusive areas. However, the only way they can afford
  7. S12E07Grand Designs S12E07Isle of Skye: The Larch-Clad HouseOctober 31, 2012Kevin McCloud meets artists Indi and Rebecca, who are planning to build a modern, larch-clad home on the Isle of Skye, with a second hand-cr
  8. S12E08Grand Designs S12E08London: The Joinery WorkshopNovember 7, 2012 6.0Architect Henning Stummel and his partner Alice Dawson plan to convert a dilapidated joinery workshop in north London into a contemporary fa
  9. S12E09Revisited - Isle of Wight: The Tree House (Revisited from S10 Ep1)November 14, 2012Two years ago, architectural designer Lincoln Miles and his wife, artist Lisa Traxler, found an uninspiring 1970s bungalow on a plot on the
  10. S12E10Revisited - London: The Disco Home (Revisited from S11 Ep7)November 21, 2012In 2010, Claire Farrow and Ian Hogarth built a home containing a sauna, spa, dance floor and DJ booth on a small patch of land in London. It
  11. S12E11Revisited - Essex: The Large Timber-Framed Barn (Revisited from S11 Ep4)November 28, 2012Kevin revisits artists Freddie Robbins and Ben Coode-Adams who converted a large, Grade II-listed timber-framed barn in Essex into a family
  12. S12E122nd Revisiting - Brighton: The Co-Op (Revisited from S1 Ep3 & S2 Ep13December 5, 2012Kevin revisits the co-op. Started in 1998, this development of ten timber frame houses is based on the Walter Segal method of construction a

Season 12 ranked & reviewed

Season1311Episodes2013AiredSeason avg
  1. S13E01Grand Designs S13E01South Yorkshire: The 1920's CinemaSeptember 4, 2013Kevin McCloud follows a project to renovate and extend a classic 1920s cinema in Thorne, South Yorkshire. With little knowledge of restorati
  2. S13E02Grand Designs S13E02North London: The Miniature Hollywood MansionSeptember 11, 2013Jonathan Broom, one of the founders of Ecoigo, and his wife Deborah have put everything on hold while he pursues his dream of building a min
  3. S13E03Grand Designs S13E03York: The Giant Farm ShedSeptember 18, 2013Commercial architect Martin Walker and his art-director wife Kae want to build the ultimate family home near York, inspired by a giant farm
  4. S13E04Grand Designs S13E04Tiverton: The Crooked Chocolate Box CottageSeptember 25, 2013Marine captain Jon's life changed for ever when he stepped onto a land mine in Afghanistan and lost three limbs. After viewing many uninspir
  5. S13E05Grand Designs S13E05South Lanarkshire: The Metal Sculptural HomeOctober 2, 2013Colin Mackinnon and his partner Marta Briongos take on an ambitious project to build a bespoke metal home next to an airfield runway, design
  6. S13E06Grand Designs S13E06Monmouthshire: The Japanese HouseOctober 9, 2013Kevin McCloud meets Tamayo Hussey, who has missed Japan ever since she moved to the UK 14 years ago with her husband, quantum physics profes
  7. S13E07Grand Designs S13E07Brockwell Park, South London: The Modernist MasterpieceOctober 16, 2013Ben and Rachel Hammond have spent a year searching London for somewhere exciting to live with their two daughters, and they have finally stu
  8. S13E08Grand Designs S13E08East Devon: The Cob CastleOctober 23, 2013Kevin meets Kevin McCabe who wants to build what may be the largest Cob structure in the world. With 6 metre-tall walls, McCabe fights a bat
  9. S13E09Grand Designs S13E09Newbury: The Christmas FarmOctober 30, 2013Michael Butcher and Phil Palmer fell in love with Christmas Farm, near Newbury, and decided to give up their urban media jobs and move to th
  10. S13E10Revisited - Málaga, Spain: The Modernist Villa (Revisited from Grand Designs Abroad 8 September 2004)November 6, 2013Around ten years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa retired to southern Spain. Instead of creating a home like the traditional old fincas in the are
  11. S13E11Revisited - Woodbridge: The Modest Home (Revisited from S10 Ep3)November 13, 2013Six years ago Lucie Fairweather and Nat McBride began to build an affordable eco home in Woodbridge for themselves and their two young child

Season 13 ranked & reviewed

Season1410Episodes2014AiredSeason avg
  1. S14E01Grand Designs S14E01Gwynedd: The Clifftop HouseSeptember 3, 2014Rob Hodgson and Kay Ralph plan to build a sleek glass-fronted house on a crumbling clifftop in Gwynedd, taking inspiration from the villas o
  2. S14E02Grand Designs S14E02Cornwall: The Cross-Laminated Timber HouseSeptember 10, 2014Product designer Rebecca Sturrock has returned to her family home in Cornwall with her partner Gregory Kewish and a highly ambitious plan. T
  3. S14E03Grand Designs S14E03Milton Keynes: The Round HouseSeptember 17, 2014GP Peter Berkin and his wife Chard, an alternative medicine practitioner, have decided to build a new home at the bottom of their garden, bu
  4. S14E04Grand Designs S14E04County Londonderry: The Shipping Containers HouseSeptember 24, 2014Architect Patrick Bradley has come up with an unusual £100,000 house design built out of four 45ft shipping containers, welded together to f
  5. S14E05Grand Designs S14E05London: The Urban ShedOctober 1, 2014Tracy Fox and husband Steve want to build an "urban shed" featuring two studios, three bedrooms and a double-height space with a walkway, ma
  6. S14E06Grand Designs S14E06Norfolk: The Periscope HouseOctober 8, 2014Natasha Cargill wants to build a home shaped like two enormous periscopes in rural Norfolk, but to obtain planning permission, she has to en
  7. S14E07Grand Designs S14E07Marlow: The Floating HouseOctober 15, 2014Kevin McCloud follows software executive Andy Bruce and garden designer Nicki Bruce, who are planning to build a "floating" house on the Riv
  8. S14E08Grand Designs S14E08Revisited - Creuse, France: The 19th Century Manor HouseOctober 22, 2014Kevin McCloud revisits a memorable restoration project in the remote Creuse region of central France. Back in 2003, when Denise Daniel and D
  9. S14E09Grand Designs S14E09Revisited - Monmouthshire: The Japanese HouseOctober 29, 2014Kevin McCloud revisits a unique Japanese-Welsh fusion home in the Wye Valley, completely transformed from a damp old forester's house in 201
  10. S14E10Grand Designs S14E10Revisited - Devon: The Crooked Chocolate Box CottageNovember 5, 2014Kevin McCloud returns to Devon for an update on an inspirational build. Royal Marine Captain Jon White and his wife Becky were living happil

Season 14 ranked & reviewed

Season154Episodes2015AiredSeason avg
  1. S15E01Living in the CityJuly 9, 2015Kevin McCloud presents the first of four special programmes inspired by 15 years of Grand Designs. He begins with a look at the challenges o
  2. S15E02Living in the WildJuly 16, 2015In the second of four special programmes, Kevin McCloud looks at the challenges of self-building in the UK's most remote places, where beaut
  3. S15E03Living in SuburbiaJuly 23, 2015Kevin McCloud reveals how self-builders in the suburbs are transforming this most maligned of residential environments. He draws on some of
  4. S15E04Living in the CountryJuly 30, 2015Kevin McCloud looks at the challenges of self-building in the countryside, where design must embrace and enhance tradition, yet often overco

Season 15 ranked & reviewed

Season169Episodes2015Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S16E01Grand Designs S16E01West Sussex: The Perfectionist's BungalowSeptember 9, 2015Kevin McCloud meets Clinton Dall from Sussex, a self-made businessman and father of four aiming to build one of the largest homes ever featu
  2. S16E02Grand Designs S16E02East Sussex - The Boat HouseSeptember 16, 2015 9.0Boat enthusiast James Strangeways invites Kevin McCloud to survey progress on the construction of his new home, which his architect nephew B
  3. S16E03Grand Designs S16E03Isle of Wight: The Seaside HouseSeptember 23, 2015After recovering from a life-threatening brain haemorrhage, Bram Vis, his wife Lisa and their two children want to build a house for sharing
  4. S16E04Grand Designs S16E04Worcestershire: The Cave HouseSeptember 30, 2015Kevin McCloud follows the progress of 37-year-old Angelo Mastropietro, as he transforms a damp, dark and abandoned cave in Worcestershire. H
  5. S16E05Grand Designs S16E05County Antrim: The Blacksmith's HouseOctober 7, 2015Kevin McCloud follows the progress of teacher Michele Long and architect Michael Howe, who want to restore and transform a 100-year-old blac
  6. S16E06Grand Designs S16E06Somerset: The Concrete CowshedOctober 14, 2015Kevin McCloud follows the progress of private chef Ed Versluys and Pilates instructor Vicky Anderson, who want to convert a concrete cow-she
  7. S16E07Grand Designs S16E07Lewes: The Rusty Metal HouseOctober 21, 2015Kevin McCloud follows the progress of Stephen Yeoman and Anita Findlay, who want to build a cutting-edge, post-industrial house covered in r
  8. S16E08Grand Designs S16E08Revisited - Marlow: The Floating HouseOctober 28, 2015Kevin McCloud revisits Andy and Nicky Bruce who were building an experimental amphibious house on a small island on the Thames in Buckingham
  9. S16E09Grand Designs S16E09Revisited - Cornwall: The Cross-Laminated Timber HouseNovember 13, 2015Kevin McCloud returns to north Cornwall to see one of his favourite Grand Designs, and discover whether Rebecca Sturrock and Gregory Kewish

Season 16 ranked & reviewed

Season17Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode9Episodes2016–17Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S17E01Grand Designs S17E01Dursley: Gloucestershire TreehouseSeptember 21, 2016 8.0A new run of shows starts with an overgrown, neglected half-acre site in the heart of a Gloucestershire town. It could be the perfect plot t
  2. S17E02Grand Designs S17E02Horsham: Fun HouseSeptember 28, 2016 6.0Why are our homes so often designed to be so serious and purely practical? Surely there's space for a bit more fun? That's what Matt and Sop
  3. S17E03Grand Designs S17E03South Cornwall: Steam Bending HouseOctober 5, 2016 8.0Tom and Danielle Raffield's lifelong passion is steam-bending wood into extraordinary curvy shapes. They've spent much of their working live
  4. S17E04Grand Designs S17E04Essex: Black HouseOctober 12, 2016 7.5After artist and teacher Michelle Parsons recovered from serious illness, she and her architect husband David decided it was time to seize t
  5. S17E05Grand Designs S17E05Bolton: Ultra-Modern HouseOctober 19, 2016 7.5Paul Rimmer has worked with bricks for 40 years renovating Victorian houses in Bolton. But now he plans to hand-build a state-of-the-art woo
  6. S17E06Grand Designs S17E06Pembrokeshire: Low-Impact HouseOctober 26, 2016 8.5Can you really build a Grand Design when you've only got £500 to start with? That's what Simon and Jasmine Dale had in the bank when they st
  7. S17E07Grand Designs S17E07Devon: Plough-Shaped HouseNovember 2, 2016 8.0Kevin McCloud meets Mark and Candida Diacono, who have set about building a home in the shape of a plough on their 17-acre smallholding in D
  8. S17E08Grand Designs S17E08Season's bestThe Wirral: Floating Timber HouseNovember 17, 2016 9.0How do you turn your small bungalow from a 1960s dormer into a generous 21st-century piece of slick architecture, all for £175k? Stuart and
  9. S17E09Grand Designs S17E09Revisited - Somerset: Cow ShedMay 30, 2017 7.5Kevin McCloud returns one year later to see the progress of private chef Ed Versluys and Pilates instructor Vicky Anderson, who wanted to co

Season 17 ranked & reviewed

Season18Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode9Episodes2017Aired 7.9Season avg
  1. S18E01Grand Designs S18E01Malvern Hill HouseSeptember 6, 2017 8.0Few people would be brave or foolish enough to buy a building plot without visiting it first. But that's exactly what ex-RAF pilot Jon and G
  2. S18E02Grand Designs S18E02Haringey, London: Victorian GatehouseSeptember 13, 2017 8.0Penny Talelli has a passion for cutting-edge contemporary architecture, while husband Mark Edwards loves period buildings. Somehow, these tw
  3. S18E03Grand Designs S18E03County Down: Agricultural HouseSeptember 20, 2017 8.0We are a nation that loves our sheds - but not many of us would want to actually live in one. In Northern Ireland, young architect and shed
  4. S18E04Grand Designs S18E04Season's bestSouth Hertfordshire: Roman HouseSeptember 27, 2017 8.5Chris and Kayo build an intricate, radical and complicated home on protected land close to one of Britain's most historic abbeys.
  5. S18E05Grand Designs S18E05South East London: Victorian Dairy HouseOctober 4, 2017 7.5Beth and Andrew rescue a crumbling Victorian dairy, hoping to make it into a 'shabby chic' family home fit for modern life. But is the build
  6. S18E06Grand Designs S18E06Blackdown Hills, Devon: Snake HouseOctober 11, 2017 7.5This is one of the most ambitious homes ever seen on Grand Designs - a scaly, curving house that's reminiscent of a giant coiled snake. Step
  7. S18E07Grand Designs S18E07Peak District: Post-Industrial HouseOctober 18, 2017 8.0Fred and Saffron build a home in the Peak District on a 30 degree slope, with the top floor in plain sight and two post-industrial style flo
  8. S18E08Grand Designs S18E08London: Miniscule HouseOctober 25, 2017 7.5Joe and Lina's clever space-saving low-budget build may be the smallest two-bedroom house you're allowed to build in London, but it'll be st
  9. S18E09Grand Designs S18E09Revisited - Herefordshire: The Recycled Timber-Framed HouseNovember 1, 2017 8.5Ten years in the making, this is the longest running Grand Designs ever. In 2007, Ed and Rowena Waghorn started to build a handcrafted five

Season 18 ranked & reviewed

Season19Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2018Aired 7.6Season avg
  1. S19E01Grand Designs S19E01Season's bestAylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire: Mini-castleSeptember 19, 2018 8.0Kevin McCloud returns for a new series of the show that follows intrepid individuals trying to design and build their dream home. In Bucking
  2. S19E02Grand Designs S19E02Padstow, Cornwall: American Modernist HouseSeptember 26, 2018 8.0Harry and Briony Anscombe have made a radical change to their lives, moving with their three young children from London to Cornwall - and se
  3. S19E03Grand Designs S19E03Richmond: Hypoallergenic HouseOctober 3, 2018 6.0In the first 'healthy' home project ever seen on Grand Designs, gallery owner Elinor and fitness entrepreneur Born set themselves the near i
  4. S19E04Grand Designs S19E04Leominster: Amphitheatre FarmhouseOctober 10, 2018 7.5Chiropractor Steph Wilson has spent 20 years dreaming of living on her grandfather's farmland in Leominster, Herefordshire, which was sold w
  5. S19E05Grand Designs S19E05Sheffield: Twin HousesOctober 17, 2018 7.5Identical twins Nik and Jon Daughtry run a graphic design company together. They drive the same car and even own identical dogs. Now these t
  6. S19E06Grand Designs S19E06Lewes, East Sussex: Modern Country HouseOctober 24, 2018 8.0Professional deep-sea diver Adrian Corrigall is obsessed with concrete. He fell in love with this cold uncompromising material in the skatep
  7. S19E07Grand Designs S19E07Revisited - East Devon: Cob CastleOctober 31, 2018 8.0Kevin McCloud returns to Devon to meet Kevin McCabe, a man who wanted to build one of the biggest houses the programme has ever seen. Finall

Season 19 ranked & reviewed

Season20Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2019Aired 7.5Season avg
  1. S20E01Grand Designs S20E01Season's bestGalloway: Cliff-Top HouseSeptember 4, 2019 8.5Kevin McCloud meets Andy Stakes and Jeanette Hardy, who are building a new house on top of a sheer cliff on the west coast of Scotland. The
  2. S20E02Grand Designs S20E02Lincolnshire: Cylinder HomeSeptember 11, 2019 5.0Kevin McCloud meets entrepreneur Paul Wilkinson and his wife Amy, who are building a giant new home on a 16-acre plot in Lincolnshire. The s
  3. S20E03Grand Designs S20E03Warwickshire: Wheelchair-Friendly HouseSeptember 18, 2019 8.5Design engineer Mark Butler is paralysed from the waist down and needs a cutting-edge, wheelchair-friendly family home. Making it for £600k
  4. S20E04Grand Designs S20E04Hull: Underground Family HouseSeptember 25, 2019 7.0Richard and Felicia almost single-handedly turn an underground water reservoir in the Humber Estuary into a family home. It's an epic task.
  5. S20E05Grand Designs S20E05West Suffolk: Tree HouseOctober 2, 2019 8.0After recovering from leukemia, Toby is driven to build a complex home around an old oak tree. But can he balance high architecture and heal
  6. S20E06Grand Designs S20E06North Devon: LighthouseOctober 9, 2019 7.5Edward and Hazel plan a shining white art deco lighthouse on a rugged beautiful clifftop. But almost immediately their wildly optimistic pla
  7. S20E07Grand Designs S20E07Strathaven: Airfield RevisitedOctober 16, 2019 8.0Six years on, Kevin returns to Scotland to see Colin and Marta's incredible metal home, inspired by aircraft hangars, now that the construct

Season 20 ranked & reviewed

Season21Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2021Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S21E01Grand Designs S21E01South West LondonJanuary 6, 2021 7.5Kevin McCloud follows more of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid individuals attempt to design and construct the h
  2. S21E02Grand Designs S21E02Sevenoaks, KentJanuary 13, 2021 8.0Greg and Georgie plan to convert a cavernous, dilapidated, 35-year-old barn in Georgie's parents' garden in Kent into a peaceful safe haven.
  3. S21E03Grand Designs S21E03South Lincolnshire: Contemporary Dutch-Style Barn HouseJanuary 20, 2021 8.0Nathan and Amye are building a cathedral-like home modeled on local Dutch barn houses with a sleek twist and a 5000-tile armadillo roof. But
  4. S21E04Grand Designs S21E04Season's bestBletchley: Self-Heating HouseJanuary 27, 2021 8.5Energy conservationist Andrew plans to build a radical, self-heating home by storing the warmth of the summer sun into insulated earth banks
  5. S21E05Grand Designs S21E05Liskeard, CornwallFebruary 3, 2021 7.5Kevin McCloud follows an ambitious build in Cornwall, as Leigh and Richard transform a derelict 17th century flour mill into a contemporary,
  6. S21E06Lewes, East Sussex: Modern Country House: RevisitedJuly 14, 2021 8.5Kevin McCloud revisits professional deep-sea diver Adrian Corrigall and his wife Megan, who planned to build their new family home in rural

Season 21 ranked & reviewed

Season22Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2021Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S22E01Huxham, DevonSeptember 1, 2021 7.5Kevin McCloud visits a couple planning to build a home that looks like a work of art overlooking a valley in south Devon. Joe and Claire's n
  2. S22E02Billingshurst, West SussexSeptember 8, 2021 7.0Kevin McCloud meets master carpenter Olaf, who is facing the biggest challenge of his career - creating an oasis for himself and partner Fri
  3. S22E03Kinross, Scotland: Black Minimalist HouseSeptember 15, 2021 7.0Kevin McCloud meets architect Iain and his wife Jenny, who intend to build an enormous black minimalist house right in the middle of a 19th-
  4. S22E04Ely, Cambridgeshire: Malay HouseSeptember 22, 2021 8.8
  5. S22E05Season's bestChichester, West Sussex: Floating HouseSeptember 29, 2021 9.0Dan and Nina want to build a unique family home, but their plot is dominated by a pond filled with local drainage. Will their West Sussex ho
  6. S22E06South Lakeland, Cumbria: Blacking Mill HouseOctober 6, 2021 8.0
  7. S22E07Essex: Cantilevered HouseOctober 13, 2021 8.5

Season 22 ranked & reviewed

Season23Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode11Episodes2022Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S23E01South ManchesterAugust 31, 2022 7.5Kevin McCloud returns to follow more ambitious home-design projects, beginning by meeting adventurous couple Colin and Adele. They have empl
  2. S23E02Season's bestTunbridge WellsSeptember 7, 2022 8.0Kevin McCloud meets Kate and Rob, who have lived in a 1940s prefab house built by Rob's grandfather. Originally designed to be lived in for
  3. S23E03CanterburySeptember 14, 2022 7.7Kevin McCloud meets Dorran, who has taken on the ambitious task of building a super-modern underground home on a hill outside Canterbury. He
  4. S23E04Chess ValleySeptember 21, 2022 7.7Kevin McCloud meets Zimbabwean-born Davi and Matt from Australia, who are determined to create a home to reflect their backgrounds, so set o
  5. S23E05DerbyshireSeptember 28, 2022 8.0Kevin meets Mike and Sarah, who bought a remote smallholding in the Derbyshire Dales, somewhere to rear animals and provide a home for thems
  6. S23E06DunstableOctober 5, 2022 8.0Kevin McCloud meets retired racehorse breeder John and his wife Helen in Dunstable. The couple met at Newbury races in 2005 and wed two year
  7. S23E07Sydenham Hill, LondonOctober 12, 2022 7.5Kevin meets south London chef Corinne, who loves to entertain and is rustling up plans for a beautifully crafted, double-kitchen home design
  8. S23E08North Devon RevisitOctober 19, 2022 8.0In 2011, Edward and Hazel set out to build a lighthouse on the north Devon coast. By 2019, they were near bankruptcy with just a rusting she
  9. S23E09Somerset RevisitOctober 26, 2022 7.5Kevin McCloud revisits Vicky and Ed, who in 2015 broke free from the shackles of their hectic London lives to try to build a new life in the
  10. S23E10Bolton RevisitNovember 2, 2022 8.0In 2015 Paul and Carol set out to build an eco-friendly and energy-saving timber fortress in Bolton, on the edge of the wild West Pennine Mo
  11. S23E11Devon RevisitNovember 9, 2022 8.0Kevin McCloud visits Sue and Martin who set out to renovate two 16th and 18th-century barns in 1999. Without conventional plans, surveys and

Season 23 ranked & reviewed

Season24Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode8Episodes2023Aired 7.9Season avg
  1. S24E01Season's bestWye ValleySeptember 27, 2023 8.0Kevin McCloud meets Rosa and her partner Craig who are turning a century-old, family-owned, decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a ho
  2. S24E02Scunthorpe, North LincolnshireOctober 4, 2023 8.0Kevin McCloud meets college deputy principal Danny who plans on building a four-bedroom house in his garden in North Lincolnshire. He plans
  3. S24E03Gloucestershire RevisitOctober 11, 2023 7.7Kevin McCloud returns to Gloucestershire to visit Jon and Noreen who, in 2013, planned to build a three-bed treehouse on a half-acre patch o
  4. S24E04Hackney DownsOctober 25, 2023 7.7Kevin McCloud meet Graeme and Melanie who have huge ambitions for a home in Hackney. They plan to build on a tiny twin garage plot with no s
  5. S24E05South HerefordshireNovember 1, 2023 7.7Furniture-maker Lucinda sets out to build a two-storey, highly insulated home entirely out of wood in the woodland near her old family home.
  6. S24E06North CotswoldsNovember 8, 2023 8.0An ambitious couple set out to build a revolutionary eco home in the Cotswolds, which will not only use very little energy, it will also pro
  7. S24E07Liskeard, Cornwall RevisitNovember 29, 2023 8.0In 2017, Leigh and Richard bought a derelict Cornish flour mill to restore and turn into their home. By 2021, rooms and landscaping were sti
  8. S24E08Billingshurst, Sussex RevisitDecember 6, 2023 8.0Kevin McCloud returns to West Sussex to meet with Olaf and Fritha who, in 2019, set out to build their own oasis on a piece of land that is

Season 24 ranked & reviewed

Season25Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2024Aired 8.4Season avg
  1. S25E01Season's bestEast Yorkshire 2024September 25, 2024 8.5Kevin McCloud follows the progress of Zahid and Ferzana from Leeds as they set out to transform an obsolete coastguard station in East Yorks
  2. S25E02Lincolnshire Wolds 2024October 2, 2024 8.5Professional make-up artist Zara and her partner Giuliano from Reading take a leap of faith as they build the 400-square-metre malthouse-ins
  3. S25E03West Yorkshire 2024October 9, 2024 8.5Holistic therapist Kara and electrician Jonny are building a striking stone and zinc four-bedroom family home in the rolling hills of West Y
  4. S25E04Henley-on-Thames 2024October 16, 2024 8.0Physical therapist Ara and researcher Tony set out to create a home focused on health and wellbeing on a woodland clearing near Henley-on-Th
  5. S25E05Northamptonshire 2024October 23, 2024 8.5Adam and Tassy take on an abandoned water tower - a concrete column stretching over 20 metres into the Northamptonshire sky - and turn it in
  6. S25E06Newhaven RevisitOctober 30, 2024 8.5Kevin McCloud celebrates the 25th anniversary of the show by making a special revisit to the show's first ever project in the East Sussex co

Season 25 ranked & reviewed

Season26Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode5Episodes2025Aired 8.5Season avg
  1. S26E01Season's bestWorthingMarch 26, 2025 8.5The iconic property show returns for a new run. Kevin McCloud follows more of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid i
  2. S26E02BedfordshireApril 2, 2025 8.5The new run of the iconic property show continues. Kevin McCloud follows more of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepi
  3. S26E03North LondonApril 9, 2025 8.5The new run of the iconic property show continues. Kevin McCloud follows more of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepi
  4. S26E04Hackney RevisitApril 16, 2025 8.5The new run of the iconic property show continues. Kevin McCloud follows Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid indivi
  5. S26E05South-West London RevisitApril 23, 2025 8.5The new run of the iconic property show continues. Kevin McCloud follows Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid indivi

Season 26 ranked & reviewed

Season27Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2025Aired 8.1Season avg
  1. S27E01Durham Dales 2025October 1, 2025 7.0Kevin McCloud follows more of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid individuals attempt to design and construct the h
  2. S27E02Southwest 2025October 8, 2025 8.8Pete and Aey order a factory-built house to be constructed in Wales and transported to their rural West Sussex plot, where they plan to demo
  3. S27E03PembrokeshireOctober 15, 2025 8.8Kevin McCloud meets Marcus and Abi, who are building a luxurious off-grid family home deep in 20-acre woodland in Pembrokeshire on a budget
  4. S27E04Season's bestSurrey HillsOctober 22, 2025 9.0Kevin McCloud follows a couple who face a race against time to realise their dream. Two years ago, corporate accountant Pep was diagnosed wi
  5. S27E05Stratford-upon-Avon 2025October 29, 2025 7.0Piers and Emma build the first new listed castle in the UK for 100 years, complete with a tower, moat and futuristic tech. It's the biggest
  6. S27E06Wirral RevisitNovember 5, 2025 7.3Kevin McCloud revisits Stuart and Rosie Treasurer from Wirral, who he first met in 2016 when they set out to transform a small bungalow from
  7. S27E07Sevenoaks, Kent RevisitNovember 12, 2025 8.7Kevin McCloud revisits Greg and Georgie, who in 2019 set out to convert a dilapidated 35-year-old barn in Georgie's parents' garden in Seven

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