Grand Designs: Season 13
Season 13 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 12.
- 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 13 Progress Shield
South Yorkshire: The 1920s Cinema
Sep 4, 2013 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud follows a project to renovate and extend a classic 1920s cinema in Thorne, South Yorkshire. With little knowledge of restoration, Gwyn and Kate boldly set about turni
North London: The miniature Hollywood mansion
Sep 11, 2013 · 45 min
Jonathan Broom and his wife Deborah have put everything on hold while he pursues his dream of building a mini Hollywood Hills-style mansion right in the gritty heart of north Londo
York: The Giant Farm Shed
Sep 18, 2013 · 45 min
Kevin meets Martin and Kae Walker, who want to build the ultimate family home inspired by a giant farm shed.
Tiverton: The Crooked Chocolate Box Cottage
Sep 25, 2013 · 45 min
When he lost three limbs in Afghanistan, Jon's life changed forever. Now he wants to build a house that allows him to live independently. The design is cutting edge, but the budget
South Lanarkshire: The Metal Sculptural Home
Oct 2, 2013 · 45 min
Kevin meets flying instructor Colin Mackinnon and trapeze artist Marta Briongos and the incredible metal home they're building next to their very own airfield in Strathaven, Scotla
Monmouthshire: Japanese House
Oct 9, 2013 · 45 min
Tamayo Hussey's missed Japan ever since she moved to the UK with her husband Nigel. To stave off the homesickness they've decided to transform a forester's lodge into a Japanese ho
South London: Modernist Masterpiece
Oct 16, 2013 · 45 min
A young couple want take on an average 1950s house and turn it into an architectural masterpiece. After a year of searching London for somewhere exciting to live with their young
East Devon: Cob Castle
Oct 23, 2013 · 45 min
Kevin meets a master craftsman whose dream is to build a castle made entirely of mud. Kevin McCabe is the leading living exponent of the ancient art of cob building - wrestling ho
Newbury: Christmas Farm
Oct 30, 2013 · 45 min
Confirmed city dwellers Michael and Phil have moved to the country to run a farm, start a micro brewery and create in a vast, dramatic 21st-century farmhouse to live in. Michael B
Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
Nov 6, 2013 · 45 min
Kevin catches up with the story of a daring modernist home in the Andalucian hills in southern Spain.. Ten years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa decided to retire to southern Spain. Re
Revisited: Woodbridge: The Modest Home
Nov 13, 2013 · 45 min
Six years ago Lucie Fairweather and Nat McBride began to build an affordable eco home in Woodbridge for themselves and their two young children. However, their journey was to be ab