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

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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

Exactly my thoughts, I'd be worried about it all crumbling into the sea.

I never understand how people lack the imagination to foresee the bleedin' obvious. That house was always going to take longer to build than his family would take to grow up. And it was always going to be staggeringly over budget with daily snags and pitfalls.

I like the style but the scale is commercial not homely.

10 million! LOL. I'm sure even he didn't spend that much on it.

As a local resident I would say to anyone who wants to live there be aware that the locals HATE it and the knob that built it. Therefore may not be welcoming to the new residents.

I admire his tenacity in getting it done, but god what a waste of a life just to create this overblown monstrosity. It’s one thing to have drive and vision, but the bloke’s blind hubris has cost him his marriage and the precious childhoods of his daughters, and earned him the contempt of the community where he’s crash-landed this gin palace.

Even watching the original programme I was astonished at his inability to see sense and rein in his ambition at all, even when it was clear how much trouble they were in. Something a quarter of the scale would still be an amazing achievement in such a special and beautiful location, and his family could have been living there together and enjoying it for years by now.

Definitely one of the most heartbreaking stories on GD.

I do love Croyde Bay but I don't think that house is for me.

He was some sort of music executive. Also, had success as a DJ or something like that and was still getting royalties from things he'd released in the 90s. It showed his office at one point and there were discs/awards all over the walls..

Grand Designs glass walled houses are hell in hot weather. Whole thing in The Times about it. You need to install external shutters to keep the sun out or build expensive ground source air cooling. The alternative is environmentally catastrophic conventional air conditioning. What a pointless indulgence.

I remember thinking the architect was even worse than the client. He seemed to take no responsibility at all for not having foreseen expensive obstacles.

So sad for the daughters, who lost out on having a proper family home for the end of their teenage years, having had a really quite idyllic home / lifestyle before the folly.

Looks like a police station in Miami or somewhere similar. Nothing special to look at in my opinion. Such stunning surroundings deserve something more imaginative.

I think it looks quite nice with the sunshine and blue skies. I bet its miserable when it's grey and chucking it down.
If I had that much to spend I wouldn't be settling there, but then I'd never spend that on a house anyway.

A lego police station, as someone above mentioned. There's definitely something Lego looking about it

Is there a link to the original show?

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/125051123#/

ForTheLoveOfSleep
As a local resident I would say to anyone who wants to live there be aware that the locals HATE it and the knob that built it. Therefore may not be welcoming to the new residents.

How petty, any new owner will have had nothing to do with “the knob”.
Mind you, I’m sure someone who can afford to buy this won’t worry about mixing with any riffraff.

Yepp. How they got planning permission to do drastically change the skyline and silhouette of Downend I don't know. It's effing hideous, sadly as it's nowhere near a cliff or anywhere that suffers erosion we're stuck with it.

It was made clear on the tv show that the locals hated it. There was no consideration for building something that was sympathetic to the surroundings and i seem to recall that it caused a lot of disruption to local people - it's a few years since i watched it though.

I doubt very much if a person could afford that house they’d be worried about what the locals think if them.

It looks like Shoreham airport.

Nice in lovely sunny weather, I'd hate to be that close to the sea with all that glass in a storm. Not very cozy.

Im not surprised the locals hate it @ForTheLoveOfSleep. "Wonderful view of the beach" obviously means everyone on the beach has to look at the ugly thing. Shocking arrogance, like riding a loud motorbike arou d and not caring everyone has to hear it, in visual form.

Should never have received planning permission, would have spared everyone no end of heartache. And yes, obviously a nightmare to heat and cool with all that glass. Kevin McCloud has a lot to answer for IMO.

Saw this the other day. It's not even finished, it's still got bits to be done, hasn't it? Bet they don't get 10 million for it.

Such a sad house. I hope a multigenerational family buy it and use it as a family home to turn it around into a good thing.

Such a sad story

I think it would be great in a storm; I love being indoors and seeing extremes of weather outside. It looks too like a luxury holiday resort hotel not that I've ever seen one of those in real life! to me though, I don't like it.

Ye Gods. That cliff is giving way, isn't it?