Grand Designs Season 6 Episode 2 Synopsis

Hillcott Barn looked more like a Tuscan monastery than an English barn. When the farmer put it up for sale, most people who viewed it walked away. It was dark and isolated and could only be reached by a half mile farm track with a steep 1:8 gradient. But furniture designer Robert Ellis (58) had had his eye on it for some time. For years he'd been jogging past the barn and always thought one day he'd like to live there. Against all advice, Rob and his wife Jane, (58) a textile designer, went ahead and bought the barn for ?210,000 and proposed to convert at ?250,000.

Grand Designs Season 6 Episodes...

• s06e01 - The Loch House, Killearn
• s06e02 - The Contemporary Barn Conversion, Ross-on-Wye
• s06e03 - Stirling: The Contemporary Cedar Clad Home
• s06e04 - Water Tower Conversion, Ashford
• s06e05 - Revisited: 19th Century Manor House, Creuse
• s06e06 - Revisited: 300 Year Old Chalet
• s06e07 - Garden House aka Mies van der Rohe Inspired House
• s06e08 - Revisited: The Curved House

Grand Designs Show Summary

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud.

The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way.