Grand Designs: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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 3 Progress Shield
The Wooden Box, Peterborough
Feb 12, 2003 · 45 min
'Is it a bold contemporary design or a garden shed?' John and Terri found themselves asking, halfway into their build. They had knocked down a derelict house in a beautiful rural s
The Water-Works, Whaley, Derbyshire
Feb 19, 2003 · 45 min
The 1930s derelict water-works Chris and Leanne fell in love with was huge and its design had clearly been inspired by Gilbert Scott's Bankside power station, now better known as t
The Woodsman's Cottage, Sussex
Feb 26, 2003 · 45 min
For 10 years, Ben lived in tents and caravans in a wood in West Sussex. As a woodsman, he needed and wanted to live among the trees. But after a battle with planning he finally got
The Victorian Threshing Barn, Surrey
Mar 5, 2003 · 45 min
For Philip and Angela, the build was part of a life change that had begun two years earlier. Just after their second daughter was born, Philip fell seriously ill, prompting the fam
Inverted Roof-House, Buckinghamshire
Mar 12, 2003 · 45 min
Tom and Judy wanted more than just a home for themselves and their two children. On a site of outstanding natural beauty in Buckinghamshire, they set out to build an ambitious hous
The Terrace Conversion, Hackney, London
Sep 17, 2003 · 45 min
After 10 years of living in a small house in east London, John and Eleni hankered after modern, open-plan living. They didn't want to move, so they decided to give their Victorian
The Underground House, Cumbria
Sep 24, 2003 · 45 min
The old quarry stood on a slope of the Eden valley and commanded beautiful views. Local architect John Bodger designed a two-storey house that burrowed backwards into the rock and
The Traditional Cottage, Herefordshire
Oct 1, 2003 · 45 min
Merry's family have been Herefordshire builders for generations, so she knew that the county was rich in traditional building crafts. She and Ben decided to combine these with tech
Revisited: The Isolated Cottage, Brecon Beacons, Wales
Sep 10, 2002 · 45 min
Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 1 Kevin McCloud revisits Adrian and Corrina, who decided their first home was to be a 300-year-old ruin. The former cottage is set in the inhospi
Revisited: The Dilapidated Georgian House, London
Sep 17, 2002 · 45 min
Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 2 Kevin revisits Tony and Sharon, who fell in love with a completely dilapidated Georgian home in London and undertook the challenging task of re
Revisited: The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham
Sep 24, 2002 · 45 min
Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 3 Kevin is in Amersham to update on a project taken on by Deborah and architect Andrew. Their venture involved designing an 'invisible' house tha
Revisited: The Derelict Barns, Devon
Oct 1, 2002 · 45 min
Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 4 Kevin travels to the beautiful setting of south Devon to revisit Sue and Martin, whose dream was to create a family home using old English buil
Revisited: The Cruciform House, Lambourn Valley, Berkshire
Oct 8, 2003 · 45 min
Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 1 Kevin McCloud returns to the Lambourn Valley to meet a couple who took three years to finish building their home on the Berkshire Downs.
Revisited: The House of Straw: 2nd Revisiting, Islington, North London
Oct 15, 2003 · 45 min
Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 2 Kevin McCloud revisits the improbable Islington home of two architects who built their avant-garde north-east London house out of straw bales,
Revisited: The Former Electricity Sub-Station, Sunderland
Oct 22, 2003 · 45 min
Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 3 Kevin McCloud catches up with a couple he met some years when they set about the task of converting a disused electricity substation in Sunderl
Revisited: The English Barn, Berkshire
Oct 29, 2003
Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 4 Kevin McCloud revisits retired couple Denys and Marjorie Randolph from Berkshire, who had decided to embark on their final building project, a