Grand Designs: Season 11
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Grand Designs Season 10.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
Morpeth: The Derelict Mill Cottage
Sep 14, 2011 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud looks at the transformation of a derelict mill cottage in Northumberland into a contemporary family home, the longest-running project ever featured on the programme.
London: The Contemporary Mansion
Sep 21, 2011 · 45 min
Paul and Penny are tearing down their million pound home in south London to build a contemporary mansion. But the challenge of building a complex home soon starts to bite.
Tenby: The Lifeboat Station
Sep 28, 2011 · 45 min
Kevin follows the progress being made as Tim and Philomena O'Donovan, convert a lifeboat station in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, into a contemporary home.
Essex: The Large Timber-framed Barn
Oct 5, 2011 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud follows the conversion of a large, Grade II-listed timber-framed barn in Essex into a family home and work-space by artists Freddie Robbins and Ben Coode-Adams. Their
Herefordshire: The Recycled Timber-framed House
Oct 12, 2011 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud meets estate manager Ed Waghorn and his wife Rowena, a couple living an almost self-sufficient life with their four children on a smallholding in Herefordshire. They
Cornwall: The Dilapidated Engine House
Oct 19, 2011 · 45 min
Ever since he was a child, stonemason Adam Purchase has loved the old silver mine engine houses that characterise Cornwall's landscape. When he and his partner Nicola Brennan chanc
London: The Disco Home
Oct 26, 2011 · 45 min
Claire and Ian try to build a home big enough for a disco on a small plot at the end of a London mews. But as angry locals begin to object to their plans, things start to go awry.
The Dome House: Revisited
Nov 2, 2011 · 45 min
Running out of money is always a grim prospect for anyone attempting their own Grand Design. Perhaps no one has come closer than Robert and Milla Gaukroger. When Kevin last saw the
The Eco Arch: Revisited
Nov 28, 2012 · 45 min
Kevin returns to the Weald of Kent and one of the most innovative houses ever featured on `Grand Designs', a highly experimental arch-shaped home built from clay tiles.
The Water Tower Conversion: Revisited
Nov 16, 2011 · 45 min
Kevin revisits Denise and Bruno Del Tufo who six years ago set about transforming a concrete water tower in their back garden into an avant-garde contemporary home.
The Adaptahaus: Revisited
Nov 23, 2011 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud revisits Alan and Judith Dawson in west Cumbria, where they began constructing a prefabricated home in 2009. They employed a method of building that should have allow
The Headcorn Minimalist House: Revisited
Nov 30, 2011 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud revisits a couple who took on the task of constructing a sustainable house in the Kent countryside. Mimi da Costa managed the project despite a lack of experience, wh