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The Grand Designs ‘Chesil Cliff’ house is up for sale

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TeapotCollection · 21/07/2022 11:35

Can’t get the link to paste from Rightmove but it’s up for £10 million and looks absolutely stunning

Really hope it gets him out of debt and he can move on with his life

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MorrisZapp · 21/07/2022 11:38

What's the back story?

Whitney168 · 21/07/2022 11:41

Have a Knight Frank link instead.

If my email saying I was the £195m winner on Tuesday has been inexplicably delayed, I might buy it. 😂

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TeapotCollection · 21/07/2022 11:42

Long story short, it cost them their marriage but he was still determined to finish it. Was on GD a good few years ago

Still can’t post the link, I must be doing something wrong

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TeapotCollection · 21/07/2022 11:42

Ah, thank you 🙂

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ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 21/07/2022 11:43

Morris : stunning, jaw-droppingly ambitious design that took 11 years. It was for his family, now grown up and he and his wife split up over it. He borrowed millions and is selling to repay his debts. House still needs finishing off - kitchen, flooring etc.

JamSandwich89 · 21/07/2022 11:48

www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/croyde-braunton-devon-ex33/exe160202

Blimey! Looks like a hotel

Eileen101 · 21/07/2022 11:51

It's a beautiful house, but such a sad story. I remember the grand designs episode it was on and it seems such a shame that it broke the marriage up.
I wonder what the locals think, as it's a huge departure from what was there before!

Rainbowshit · 21/07/2022 11:51

How sad. He said the family had an amazing life in the old house. Coming home from school and jumping into the sea and kayaking. All destroyed by the albatross he built.

Whitney168 · 21/07/2022 11:52

Gorgeous on a sunny day, but would also love to be holed up in there cosy and warm with storms raging outside.

sorcerersapprentice · 21/07/2022 11:52

All that glass. It wouldn't be great in a heatwave 😬

MorrisZapp · 21/07/2022 11:53

Oh god I remember it. Its stunning but I'm getting stressed out just thinking about it.

Is it remotely near any decent travel connections? Or will it be bought by an oligarch to add to their bonkers portfolio. Hard to imagine an actual family living there.

TheDogsMother · 21/07/2022 12:02

I remember that episode and it felt like everything that could go wrong did. Didn't he get ill as well ? Stunning house though. I would love to live there.

Thatsenoughnow · 21/07/2022 12:09

It reminds me of an airport from the outside. I think i preferred the house they demolished when i watched it.

HouseofGamers · 21/07/2022 12:10

It’s stunning but I notice on the estate agent blurb is says kitchen and bathrooms ready to be fitted out. So more money to spend. In all honesty I’d be more concerned about coastal erosion. The aerial view shows a worrying area near the pool.

KonTikki · 21/07/2022 12:10

I always wanted to know what his day job was as he had one of the biggest budgets ever on GD, and yet still managed to get into debt for millions.
He even had to build a second home to sell it to try and finance the first.
A very sad personal tragedy, but a truly gripping episode.

BlueBlueCowWondering · 21/07/2022 12:11

it was the saddest Grand Designs, but the his arrogance together with the dreadful architect made it inevitable. Wasn't there no proper access from the house to the road?

Googlecanthelpme · 21/07/2022 12:12

That is unreal.
if my DH built that I’d be staying with him no matter what. He could take the annex

Bumpsadaisie · 21/07/2022 12:14

It looks like my son's Lego Police Station - all white and blue glass!

FourTeaFallOut · 21/07/2022 12:14

Watching the grand designs on this house was like being stuck in one of those dreams were everything goes wrong and you realise that things are not just fucked but completely unsalvageable but without the relief of waking up. It's like the warning episodes of grand designs that makes buying an off the peg Wimpy house the preferable option. You can keep it, it's cursed.

Cocobeau · 21/07/2022 12:18

I'm not superstitious but that house has some bad juju. If I had the money, I wouldn't buy it.

BadgeronaMoped · 21/07/2022 12:20

Not my cup of tea at all. The Grand Designs episode was so frustrating to watch as they pissed all that money up the wall, the original house/plot wasn't cheap either.

At least it's no longer derelict.

Butteryflakycrust83 · 21/07/2022 12:21

Looks too close to the cliff edge for me....

GiantKitten · 21/07/2022 12:23

HouseofGamers · 21/07/2022 12:10

It’s stunning but I notice on the estate agent blurb is says kitchen and bathrooms ready to be fitted out. So more money to spend. In all honesty I’d be more concerned about coastal erosion. The aerial view shows a worrying area near the pool.

According to the link it’s bedded into the rock.
So it’s safe from coastal erosion (the land around it, not so much. Could end up being only accessible by air/water 🤔)

Saucery · 21/07/2022 12:28

It’s stunning, but I think it must be cursed, so I wouldn’t buy it. Something didn’t like foundations being drilled into rock and made its feelings known…….. Wink

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 21/07/2022 12:31

I watched that, it was awful, a whole family destroyed by one man's obsession.
Even if I had the money I wouldn't buy it. I can't stand houses with all that glass everywhere.
I'm more of a grade one listed historical house person.

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