If you’re anything like us you may have a slight obsession with Grand Designs. Whether they are full chronicles, programme features or award winners we want to see them all. Below are our top 10 on the market. How many do you recognise? 1. A Venetian style water tower with 360 degree views of London – it doesn’t get more grand than that. Now on the market for £5.2m. Five bed in London – Foxtons 2. Featured back in 2004, Kevin Mc Cloud had this Scottish home in his top 20 of all the Grand Designs. He described it as “a beautiful, romantic building, like a ship or an ark”. Four bed in Helensburgh – Savills 3. ‘ The White House’ – a seafront oasis or quirky and cool with stunning views. Three bed in East Sussex – Phillips and Stubbs 4. Dubbed ‘ The Sugar Cube’ this is another truly unique grand design. Now for sale at £1.5m. Four bed in Bristol – Savills 5. It’s no surprise this unique home was winner of the 2006 Grand Designs best remodelled house in Britain award. Five bed in Berkshire – Knight Frank 6. A more recent build on the Isle of Wight from 2010 which cost £200,000 to build and was recently on the market for £975,000. More Grand Designs profits 7. This Holland Park home had plenty of fame before it’s 2012 appearance on Grand Designs. The building, a former recording studio, has previously hosted artists such as Shirley Bassey, The Sex Pistols, Rod Stewart the fit-to-burst property bubble; the Tesco Expresses that used to be pubs. Presently there is no greater totem of resentment than the humble basement. Or in some cases, not so humble. The media is fond of stories about the iceberg homes of tycoons and oligarchs: already enormous houses under which three– and four–storey basements have been dug to house swimming pools and car collections. Even modest basement conversions under suburban terraces are a cause for alarm, if only because of their sudden proliferation. In certain neighbourhoods it's not unusual to see four or five being dug in the same street – boxy hoardings squatting on front gardens with conveyor belts carrying spoil over the pavement into a skip. In 2001 the borough of Kensington last year it received 450. You don't have to travel far to hear stories of endless noise, dust and disruption. Even celebrities have begun to complain. Joan Collins told a Belgravia residents' magazine she found it shocking that people are digging down to put in swimming pools and bowling alleys when they only live here for two or three months of the year. On his blog, Queen guitarist Brian May described his basement-digging neighbours as selfish and brutish and the piling rig they were using as an instrument of torture. The problems don't stop at noise. When Andy King moved into his North Kensington home, permission had already been granted for next door's one-and-a-half storey basement excavation. We inherited a party wall agreement, he says, referring to the standard written agreement aimed at protecting adjoining property owners in the event of damage. He was suspicious of the works from the moment digging began: They were banging in.
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Six-bedroom contemporary modernist property in London NW1 You might recall this house from the Grand Designs series of 2013. It was billed as a million pound house back then, although this six-bedroom contemporary modernist property in London NW1 is on the market for much more now. Six-bedroom contemporary modernist property in London NW1 According to the show’s original write-up, the house was built by Jonathan and Deborah Broom on ‘a scrap of land right in the gritty heart of north London’. Not just the heart – the house also extended six metres below ground. Six-bedroom contemporary modernist property in London NW1 Like most of these builds, it ended up more costly and time consuming than expected, but the end result was and is pretty spectacular. If you agree and you have the spare cash, you now take it on yourself. Six-bedroom contemporary modernist property in London NW1 The house, described as a ‘unique architecturally designed premium eco-home’ certainly makes the most of the plot available, offering not just the expected living areas, but some pretty cool leisure space too. Six-bedroom contemporary modernist property in London NW1 That equates to a master bedroom suite with balcony, two further double bedrooms, two offices on the lower floor (which could be used as bedrooms if you prefer) with access to an external courtyard, an additional ‘private ‘double bedroom (also with courtyard access) and a self-contained nanny flat with own entrance. Six-bedroom contemporary modernist property in London NW1 A high end modern kitchen is here naturally, as well as an open plan living space with floor to ceiling glass doors that open onto the 2,000 sq. ft. outside space, which includes a wildflower meadow front garden and lawn to the back. That leisure area? That will be the quarter Olympic length lap pool, gym and sauna. Oh yes, don’t worry about being seen in your swimming.
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