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Just six years afterwards Kevin McCloud alleged it 'awe-inspiring' in his Channel 4 show, this Lake District eco-lodge is annoyed and abandoned.
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The £1million Grand Designs eco-house at the centre of an eight ... | Grand Designs House Lake DistrictThe Dome Abode Boutique was congenital for the Grand Designs cameras with a pond pool, sauna, four-poster beds and august angle of Cumbria.
And these photos taken while the acreage in Bowness-on-Windermere was still actuality busy appearance the beauteous interiors that families could already enjoy.
However the already hyper-modern affluence anniversary let, which amount £1million to complete over two years, is now battered and allegedly abandoned.
Families who accept appointed holidays there are afraid about their deposits and buyer Robert Gaukroger is boilerplate to be found, neighbours say.
Grand Decay: Aloof six years afterwards Kevin McCloud alleged it 'awe-inspiring' in his Channel 4 appearance this Lake District eco-lodge, pictured, is annoyed and allegedly abandoned
Happier times: The Dome Abode Boutique, pictured in 2010, was congenital for the Grand Design cameras with a pond pool, bathroom four-poster beds and august angle of Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria
Grand plan: This is the kitchen and dining breadth of the Cumbrian acreage - but visitors accept said it is no best up to scratch
Complaints: Many of the cocky accouterment barter who accept backward there say they are owed deposits and alleged their analysis 'dishonorable'
Changes: The acreage is on the bazaar and has had its allurement amount bargain as the owners appetite to advertise up to pay off a loan
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Grand Designs' Lake District eco-lodge crumbling and abandoned ... | Grand Designs House Lake DistrictBeautiful: The eco abode has a baby pond basin - but visitors on TripAdvisor accept said that the heating arrangement does not work
Some holidaymakers affirmation they are block £1,000 deposits and websites are no best accepting bookings.
Mother-of-three Claire Farn had appointed a week-long ancestors anniversary there in August for £1,000 afterwards seeing the abode on TV.
The activity appeared bedevilled afterwards Robert Gaukroger (pictured) ran out of money - but a eyewitness let him borrow the money to complete it
But afterwards booking on-line she heard annihilation aback for a month. She told the Mirror: 'We couldn't get in blow with anyone and were absolutely afraid about our holiday.
'We started to get nervous. Again their website abolished and so did their listing on eBay. We've approved phoning but there was either no acknowledgment or it was engaged.'
She was alike added afraid back she saw the abode had been on the bazaar for a continued time, originally for £2.3million and again at a drop-down amount of £1.45million.
She was eventually offered a acquittance afterwards the Sunday Bodies contacted the Boutique.
Other abashed barter accept airtight the aggregation on Facebook. One anxious holidaymaker wrote: 'I accept appointed July. I cannot get a acknowledgment from them. It's all actual suspicious. I accept paid £1,490.'
Another said: 'Dreadful behaviour, the way they're alleviative bodies who accept appointed and paid up advanced for accommodation. Not at all honorable!'
According to neighbours, the Dome has been bare for three months.
The activity appeared bedevilled from the alpha afterwards Robert and Milla Gaukroger ran out of money.
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Grand designs house in lake district - House interior | Grand Designs House Lake DistrictThe couple, who accept two children, capital to transform the acreage into one of Britain's finest eco houses - but didn't accept the banknote they eventually needed.
On Grand Designs the appearance concluded with it actuality half-finished but a eyewitness again offered to put up the blow of the cash.
Mr Gaukroger said at the time: 'I took the adventitious of starting with alone £100,000 of a £400,000 budget. If I hadn't started again we apparently wouldn't accept done it at all. Already we began, we had to backpack on.'
He added: 'Out of the blue, aloof back it looked like we were activity to lose the house, a adult from Lancashire who had apparent Grand Designs contacted us and offered to accommodate us the money.
'It became actual bright she was genuine, she wasn't attractive to accord us the money but loaning it at a actual reasonable rate. She said she was advantageous abundant to be in the position to be able to accommodate us the money. She'd apparent the programme and said it was bright this was my dream and capital to help.'
Host Kevin McCloud afterwards alternate and said the architecture was admirable - but accepted he never anticipation it would be finished.
But it appears the activity continues to accept problems - aboriginal a declining as a B&B and now a self-catering project.
Mr Gaukroger said aftermost year he had to put it on the bazaar so he could abstraction while architecture a new ancestors home in Kent.
He said: 'We accept a adaptation to pay that we don't appetite blind over our heads. We will never be able to alter this house.'
Grand design: The activity was alone completed afterwards a adaptation from a TV eyewitness - but the developer is now aggravating to advertise it on
According to neighbours, the Dome has been bare for three months and antecedent guests accept slated their adventures online
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Grand design house lake district | House designs | Grand Designs House Lake DistrictTired looking: The barrio aerial adorn accomplishment has now achromatic and the area are awkward and unkept
Anger: Some holidaymakers affirmation they are block £1,000 deposits and websites are no best accepting bookings
Kevin McCloud alleged the Dome 'awe-inspiring' in 2010 - but it was alone bisected accomplished because the owners ran out of money
Guests who backward there accept slated their adventures on Trip Advisor.
One said: 'Although the abode is potentially an amazing property, it did not accommodated our expectations.'
Another wrote: 'Total disappointment. No heating or hot baptize in bisected the house. The basin was not working. There was a aperture radiator and a adulterated freezer.'
One alleged their acquaintance there 'very bad', adding: 'The pond basin and hot tub did not assignment for the absoluteness of our breach and the freezers were not working.'
A agent for Dome Abode accepted they had been experiencing problems and offered refunds. They said: 'We accept had a cardinal of issues, including the basin calefaction and abode heating system, which due to the bio-mass arrangement had account problems.
'The acreage had to abolish a booking at Easter. We already accept May blocked out as a planned break. The chase summer division was intended to be the aftermost division the acreage was to be offered as self-catering adaptation with a appearance to converting the acreage to affordable apartments.
'We accept been attractive into whether these bookings could be accommodated. Due to the attributes of the bio-mass copse heating it does assume the abode does not accommodate itself to self-catering with this system. If the electric back boiler for the basin and heating fails it is unsatisfactory.
'With this in apperception we are autograph to guests to align refunds for the baby cardinal of bookings we accept left.'
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