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

Hopefully the local residents will grow the fuck up and realise that that 1) surely a buyer is better than it being vacant and 2) it isn’t the buyers fault.
Sheesh

But hasn't he lived there for years before he started building that house?

Watching the programme and feeling incredibly sad that the family had a sweet house in a one of a kind location and now don't have that at all.

No it didn’t seem so. He bought it for the location.

what a very sad story. He had everything. Those poor girls and wife. The 1950’s house seemed perfectly fine. He could have modernised it and kept his family.

in the estate agents blurb what is meant by 3D rendering? Is it still unfinished?

Saying they should grow the fuck up is totally dismissive of locals concerns. A childish way to dismiss people.

@DobbyTheHouseElk
FAB 😁 enjoy

@sleepyhoglet
its on the channel 4 app grand designs revisited north Devon 2019

@sleepyhoglet
when I did a rewatch I thought the same, he could have put a lot of glass in the frontage, knocked rooms though in the house and added a glassy and local stone extension for views on the end and maybe some aged cedar cladding for a tiny fraction of the price of that house - whilst keeping the bones of the original house which would have sat in its environment nicely.

Perfectly reasonable to have concerns, but it isn’t the fault of the potential buyer. Surely they should direct it where it belongs- at the planning office?

It's a complete eyesore. Unbelievable that he was allowed to build something so crass in such a location.

But then again, over 1 million for the original house and clearly it would have had erosion type issues in the future. The whole thing is insane. I didn't get why the eye was built when they were already over budget. Looking at that you could see what they might have had. They could even have build two eyes and sold one. To be fair, I really hope he sells it and gets a decent price as I would be worried for his mental health. That's a long time to deal with something so stressful and self inflicted and knowing you didn't have to do it. There is a part in the programme where he or wife says that the worst thing would be having to sell os and drive past thinking we used to live there. I assume, even if he sells it, he has lost money and will have to rent. He was obviously fairly wealthy before to buy 1 million pound house

He will not get 10 million.

Found this comment:

In May 2021, a user called sueshan commented underneath an article in The Mirror:
We owned Chesil Cliff House for 20 years from 1986 to 2006. We sold it to a local guy, not the Shorts. It was a lovely spot and we poured lot of love/energy/money into it…For me it was heart wrenching to watch it demolished in Grand Design [sic]. Nothing much changed in it, I could even see the same spice rack in the kitchen that I put up on the wall :-( . It is especially heart wrenching that after all that, it's still a wreck… In my mind, the new house is not an improvement, it's an eyesore. The old Chesil was homely, well tucked away from the road, blended into the landscape. The new one is one man's vanity project.

They sold her house. It’s nothing to do with them.

@NanaNelly bet she didn't expect it to be demolished though! He didn't buy a building plot when he purchased in 2011, he bought a house and being so determined to knock down and start again was foolish as e building plot alone wasn't worth over 1 million.

That’s very sad. I can imagine the previous owner must have found that incredibly upsetting. Also they wouldn’t have got the 1.4 million for it either.

Thanks to this thread I’ve watched a very interesting episode. I think I might have watched the first part of it, when it was first aired. Before the recent updates.

Totally bonkers plan. The original house looked stunning, they were so happy with their new life. I think the architect should be sued. He must have some responsibility in this, he was also having his own vanity project.

It’s still nothing to do with her. She sold it. End of.

Sorry, just to add. It’s not anyones business either what he paid for it and if it was a good investment initially or not.

He did what he did and he’s lived to regret it. It happens.

The previous owners shouldn't have sold the house if they were that attached to it.

When you sell your house it is not longer yours and you really don’t have a say in what the new owners do to it!

Fair enough but you can still be interested, especially when it's been in telly and in newspapers! We are all interested and none of us had any personal link to the house. I found my childhood house on rightmove recently and was interested to see how it has changed.

I think the problem is that so many people think they could have done things a whole lot differently to this guy. And of course a lot of the negativity is down to him having a bit of spending power when he set of on this journey.

How dare he have had a bit of money and how dare he have also had a dream.

I don't begrudge him having money! I just wonder whether it would have been better to call it a day after building the eye. I'm all for pulling something down and rebuilding if it's the right thing, but given the difficulty of the site and that the exisiting house could have been renovated it makes me feel sad. I'm sad for him. And also amazed at the house prices of croyde now. I grew up not far away and used to go regularly as a child. Never used to have such fancy houses!

@sleepyhoglet
I think that’s sad too, i imagine you would remember happy times like that’s the place you brought your babies up and it really can be little things like the spice rack 😢

@sleepyhoglet
and mostly houses aren’t demolished so I can see that was sad for her