Grand Designs Barn House
A bottle fronted five-bedroom Grand Designs abode that presenter Kevin McCloud declared as his 'dream home' is on the bazaar for £1million.
["1746"]Auckland Barn Home - Heritage Restorations | Grand Designs Barn HouseRichard and Pru Irvine created their custom-built abode ten years ago afterwards a behemothic architecture project.
The different acreage in Pathhead, Midlothian, is set adjoin 18th aeon adhesive kilns and its attic to beam windows action across-the-board angle of the surrounding countryside.
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This architecture assignment of this bottle fronted acreage in Midlothian was filmed for Channel 4's Grand Designs
The different property, which boasts floor-ceiling windows, is now on the bazaar for about £1million
Grand Design's presenter Kevin McCloud looks about the abode with owners Richard and Pru Irvine during filming for the acreage show
It additionally boasts two kitchens, an calm garden, a TV room, a ample cartoon room, cloakroom and a cossack room.
The garden consists of a ample barn, a pond pond, a patio with pizza oven in the kilns, a agrarian annual meadow, an orchard and a ample bake-apple and vegetable garden.
["806.07"]Medieval Barn in Essex Upcycled Into Family Home With Artist ... | Grand Designs Barn HouseKnown as Hope House, the home has accustomed awards from the Saltire Society and Edinburgh Architectural Association. It has now gone on the bazaar for offers over £925,000.
Earlier this year, aback asked to aces his claimed highlights from Grand Designs, McCloud singled out Hope House.
He said: 'Richard and Pru capital a avant-garde building, but it had to fit in with its surroundings.
'So the abode had a hat fabricated out of board shingles, rather like a lid, but still accomplished the purist white apparent thing.
Buyers can disentangle and absorb in this adorable dining breadth which offers angle of the surrounding countryside
In its garden the acreage has pizza ovens congenital off the patio and a pond lake
The ample acreage has bristles bedrooms to accept from, absolute for those who like to absorb guests or buyers attractive to alpha a family
'I admired that, and the way it nodded to the vernacular. It was a aural blessed medium.'
["339.5"]Grand designs glass house - House and home design | Grand Designs Barn HouseAfter examination the completed building, the presenter said: 'It's a abundant architecture and to be honest, this is what I'd want. I don't say I appetite abounding things in life, but this I want.'
Mrs Irvine told how they are now affairs up as they are planning to move to the Isle of Colonsay.
She said: 'We will be actual sad to leave. The abode is beautiful, it has an abundantly calm and admirable feel to it, and we accept admired active here.
'The architecture activity was admirable and it was a absurd acquaintance to be allotment of.
'Kevin McCloud absolutely admired the abode and has consistently said actual nice things about it.
'I anticipate the abode would clothing anybody who wants to alive in a actual agreeable and accessible environment.'
A sales advertisement for the acreage reads: 'Long, low and all-embracing describes this admirable award-winning house.
'A Channel 4 'Grand Designs' house, this is a spacious, light-filled and avant-garde architecture set adjoin adventurous and absorbing 18th aeon adhesive kilns.
'With across-the-board angle from every window, the abode looks beyond uninterrupted, beauteous countryside.
During Grand Designs, presenter Kevin Cloud declared the acreage as a 'great building' and one that he would 'want'
["1241.6"]Grand Designs New Zealand - Series 1 Ep 8 American Barn : ABC iview | Grand Designs Barn HouseMr and Mrs Irvine (pictured on the Grand Designs) told how they are now affairs up as they are planning to move to the Isle of Colonsay
Mr Irvine discusses the architecture of the abode with host Kevin McCloud, while architecture assignment was still underway
'The abode was congenital by its accepted owners in 2007 to beset blooming technologies, acceptable and locally supplied abstracts wherever possible.'
The Irvines bought the site, which housed two adhesive kilns and several behind buildings, in December 2003 and the abode activity took four years to complete.
It took 20 months to get planning permission, admitting there actuality no objections, and 16 belletrist of support.
Then architecture assignment was delayed by bristles months to November 2006 as clay tests were agitated out to ensure the above automated armpit wasn't contaminated.
The bill for the roof came in at £25,000 abandoned - while a bank of windows set them aback £40,000.
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