Grand Designs Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

The Wooden Box, Peterborough

50 mins

Kevin McCloud joins a Peterborough couple as they seek to realise their Grand Design of a very modern home in a traditional woodland setting.

Episode 2

The Water Works, Derbyshire

49 mins

Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have their hearts set on converting a disused industrial waterworks in the Chesterfield countryside into their dream home.

Episode 3

The Woodsmans Cottage, Sussex

49 mins

Sussex coppice man Ben Law makes and sells charcoal, which requires him to stay in the forest for the long hours the process takes. For several years he has been living rough, under canvas without heating, hot water, and other basics in all weathers. Despite tough restrictions on building in English forests, he has permission to build although he can never sell it, but would have to take it down if he left his business. With occasional volunteer helpers he is building a traditional cruck house in the woods using wood and clay that he has gathered himself from the area he works.

Episode 4

The Victorian Threshing Barn, Surrey

49 mins

Philip and Andrea Traill have ambitious plans for their Grade Two Listed Victorian timber-clad barn but their plan to combine traditional and ultra-modern design causes some headaches.

Episode 5

The Inverted-Roof House

Tom and Judy set out to build an ambitious house - a symphony of angles, glass walls and exposed steel, with a dramatic inverted roof.

Episode 6

The Terrace Conversion, Hackney

49 mins

After 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 want to move, so they decided to give their Victorian terrace home a radical redesign.

Episode 7

The Underground House, Cumbria

48 mins

Helen Gould and Phil Reddy wanted their home to make the most of spectacular views, but they also wanted it to be ecologically friendly. Their solution was to build an earth-sheltered home, with most of the house built into the hillside.

Episode 8

The Traditional Cottage, Herefordshire

Kevin McCloud travels to Hereford to meet a very young couple who are building their first home, in the center of an ancient village, surrounded by beautiful medieval cottages.

Episode 9

The Cruciform House: Revisited

Episode 10

The House of Straw: 2nd Revisiting

49 mins

Kevin McCloud revisits the improbable Islington home of two architects who built their avant-garde north-east London house out of straw bales, springs, nappy cladding and silver tin

Episode 11

The Former Electricity Sub-Station: Revisited

48 mins

Kevin McCloud catches up with a couple he met some years when they set about the task of converting a disused electricity substation in Sunderland into a four-bed family home

Episode 12

The English Barn: Revisited

48 mins

Kevin McCloud revisits retired couple Denys and Marjorie Randolph from Berkshire, who had decided to embark on their final building project, a brand new, green oak, barn-style house