Grand Designs: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
Cheltenham: The Underground House
Jan 16, 2008 · 45 min
A couple who live in a Regency house in Cheltenham that is expensive to run decide to sell up and build a modern low maintenance house in their back garden. However, height restric
Oxford: The Decagon House
Jan 23, 2008 · 45 min
Henry Chopping finds his plans to build a new home in Oxford hampered by a listed wall and planning restrictions. With a budget of over three quarters of a million Henry is determi
Bristol: The Modernist Sugar Cube
Jan 30, 2008 · 45 min
An architect plans to build a new house for his family using only white materials. He ends up using stuff more commonly used in commercial buildings.
The Gothic House
Feb 6, 2008 · 45 min
Jo and Shaun Bennett want to build an Addams Family style Gothic house with a £400,000 budget. With the challenge growing bigger than they ever imagined they face financial problem
Midlothian: The Lime Kiln House
Feb 13, 2008 · 45 min
Pru and Richard make plans to build a bespoke family home on an industrial site in the middle of the Midlothian countryside. However, the plot of land, an old industrial site comp
The Bath Kit House
Feb 20, 2008 · 45 min
Kevin attempts to help Tiffany and Jonny with their dream of creating an ultra-modern, eco-friendly home in Bath in the west country. Rather than go down the traditional building
Revisited - Masseria Impisi: An Artists' Retreat
Feb 27, 2008 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton three years after they bought an olive farm in the Puglia region of Italy and planned to convert it into a home on a
Revisited - Peterborough- The Wooden Box
Mar 5, 2008 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud drops in at John and Terri Westlake's self-built, contemporary wooden home, which has a wall made entirely of glass and great views across open countryside near Peter
Revisited - German Kit House
Mar 12, 2008 · 45 min
Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with a German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.
Revisited - Surrey- The Victorian Threshing Barn
Mar 19, 2008 · 45 min
Kevin McCloud revisits Philip Trail and his wife Angela who moved to stress-free Surrey and renovated a 150-year-old threshing barn after Philip was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Cumbria Underground House Revisited
Mar 26, 2008 · 45 min
Five years on, Kevin McCloud goes back to the wilds of Cumbria to see how the Reddy family have adapted to their ecologically sound earth-sheltered home.
Maidstone: The Hi Tech Bungalow
Apr 2, 2008 · 45 min
In Maidstone, Jean and Bill Letley, a septuagenarian couple plan a highly contemporary bungalow complete with underfloor heating and prototype steel foundations. The project would