Grand Designs: Season 12
Season 12 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 11.
- 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 12 Progress Shield
Cloontykilla Castle, Ireland
Sep 12, 2012 · 45 min
The new series kicks off with a Grand Design on an epic scale, with the story of one man's heroic attempt to fulfil his childhood dream and bring back from the ruins an incredible
The Computer Cut House, Herefordshire
Sep 19, 2012 · 45 min
Kevin meets a pair of civil-partnered university professors, Celia Brackenridge and Diana Woodward. They have enlisted the services of industrial designers who have developed a
The Glass Cubes House
Sep 26, 2012 · 45 min
In Brixton in south London design-mad couple Mary Martin and Carl Turner want to build a home that resembles a giant stack of glass cubes that's a Zen retreat from the noise and ch
The Thames Boathouse
Oct 10, 2012 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud follows Lysette and Nigel Offley, who are knocking down an old Thames boathouse and constructing a cutting-edge home in its place. Taking inspiration from the river i
The Derelict Water Tower
Oct 17, 2012 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud marks the 100th episode with one of the programme's most ambitious projects to date. Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce want to convert and extend a landmark 150-year-old
The Edwardian Artist's Studio
Oct 24, 2012 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud meets Audrey and Jeff, who dream of living in one of west London's most exclusive areas. However, the way they can afford it is to go underground. Their plan is to tr
Isle of Skye: The Larch-Clad House
Oct 31, 2012 · 45 min
Kevin 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-crafted building alongside to use as their
London: The Joinery Workshop
Nov 7, 2012 · 45 min
Henning Stummel and his partner Alice Dawson attempt to convert an awkward,covered space, trapped between buildings in the crowded heart of north London into a contemporary family
The Tree House: Revisited
Nov 14, 2012 · 45 min
Architectural designer Lincoln Miles and his wife found an uninspiring 70s bungalow on the Isle of Wight on a prime piece of land surrounded by unspoilt ancient woodland. Did their
The Disco Home: Revisited
Nov 21, 2012 · 45 min
In 2010 Claire Farrow and Ian Hogarth embarked on a wild journey to build the ultimate fun family home, right in the heart of London, including a dance floor, DJ booth and sauna.
The Large Timber-Framed Barn: Revisited
Nov 28, 2012 · 45 min
Freddie Robins and Ben Coode-Adams left their cramped two bedroom London flat and took on the conversion of a huge Grade II listed timber framed barn in the Essex countryside. Seve
The Co-Op: 2nd Revisiting
Dec 5, 2012 · 45 min
On the first series of `Grand Designs', a younger Kevin McCloud witnessed as a co-operative of ten families built their own homes on the edge of Brighton. Unpaid, they slogged away