Grand Designs - Season 12 Episode 1 Cloontykilla Castle, Ireland
The new series kicks off with a Grand Design on an epic scale, with the story of one man's heroic attempt to fulfil his childhood dream and bring back from the ruins an incredible castle set in one of the most beautiful landscapes of southern Ireland.
Actor Sean Simons fell in love with the ruins of Cloontykilla Castle when he played there as a boy. Years later he bought it, with the idea of turning it into a spectacular, theatrical mock 16th century home, complete with grand baronial hall, luxury bedrooms, sweeping staircases, water spouting gargoyles, Jacuzzis in the battlements and a huge recording studio in the basement.
But would it prove to be a magnificent personal masterpiece, or a garish sub-Disneyesque disaster?
After borrowing an eye-watering 1.2 million Euros, Sean launches into his project just as Ireland plunges into recession. He has a head full of fairy tales, but no help from an architect, or indeed any formal plans whatsoever. Making things up as you go along is fine if you're building a toy castle, but not when you've got a large team of builders on site, a schedule to hit and the bank looking over your shoulder.
Over two years, rooms are built, then knocked down again. Contractors walk out in frustration. Planning permissions are ignored.
But somehow Sean's vision starts to come alive... just as Ireland collapses into financial meltdown.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: Channel 4
Director:
Cast: Kevin McCloud
Crew:
First Air Date: Apr 29, 1999
Last Air date: Oct 30, 2024
Season: 25 Season
Episode: 236 Episode
Runtime: 45 minutes
IMDb: 7.10/10 by 47.00 users
Popularity: 56.855
Language: English
Keyword : house, architecture
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Cloontykilla Castle, Ireland
The Computer Cut House, Herefordshire
The Glass Cubes House
The Thames Boathouse
The Derelict Water Tower
The Edwardian Artist's Studio
Isle of Skye: The Larch-Clad House
London: The Joinery Workshop
The Tree House: Revisited
The Disco Home: Revisited
The Large Timber-Framed Barn: Revisited
The Co-Op: 2nd Revisiting
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