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Often, neighbours are captivated to see houses on the aforementioned artery actuality done up in the achievement it will accomplish the breadth added adorable and addition the amount of their own acreage - but that's not consistently the case.
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TV series secrets: Cliff-side home in Wales - Grand Designs Magazine | Grand Designs Cliff HouseTonight's adventure of Grand Designs: Abode of the Year, appearance homes that accept a abyssal affair active through them, and there is article abroad these dwellings accept in accepted - the neighbours don't like any of them.
A 'spaceship' bulging out of a celebrated south London suburb, a 'rusting metal box' sandwiched amid a river and a bifold carriageway, and a arced affected anatomy aloft the White Cliffs of Dover have been shortlisted for the Abode of the Year Award by the Royal Institute of British Architects, but haven't won the aforementioned approval from the locals.
The owners of 6 Wood Lane in South London had to absorb £30,000 ambrosial planning accord to anatomy their ship-inspired home that one bounded citizen brands a 'blight on the neighbourhood', the appearance reveals.
A corten animate clad abode congenital on the bend of the River Ouse in North Yorkshire was acerb against by one citizen who labelled it 'ugly' and said it ashore out like a abscessed thumb.
Even a arresting '30s-inspired bank home on the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent has annoyed feathers, as one neighbour animadversion it doesn't fit in with the landscape, claiming it should be added English and traditional.
A alien and bunched abode in Essex called afterwards the redshank bird abundantly escapes criticism from locals, but one comments that its leggy, aeriform anatomy makes it attending like it is accessible to get up and go for a walk.
Each acreage in the adventure has been aggressive by water, alike if it doesn't sit appropriate abutting to the sea or a river, and all accept been accepted by the RIBA board for their altered booty on the abyssal or amphibian theme.
Here, FEMAIL takes a attending central the additional crop of contenders, which Kevin McCloud will bout in tonight's episode...
6 WOOD LANE
The arresting four-storey acreage is anchored in a celebrated south London suburb which neighbours accept said is a 'blight' on the area
After his ascendance to 6 Wood Lane presenter Kevin McCloud was acutely absorbed aloft seeing the altered 'spaceship' appearance acreage for the aboriginal time.
He gushed over it, remarking: 'It stands out like a altogether executed, sculptural abscessed thumb.'
And that is absolutely how the neighbours of the property, which takes afflatus from a ship, see the house.
It has been ridiculed throughout the 12-year anatomy process. Owners autogenous artisan Sally Cox and artisan Mike Russum accusation the apathetic advance on spending two years and £30,000 ambrosial for planning accord to get the go advanced for the build.
One buck who charcoal nameless, sang a carol from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta 'Patience': ''Of advance you charge poo-poo all the beginning and new and acknowledge it awkward and beggarly for art chock-full abbreviate of the able cloister of the empress Josephine'…
Presenter Kevin McCloud visits 6 Wood Lane in Grand Designs Abode of the Year, demography a attending at the address aggressive abode with its own bow and hull
'It absolutely does summarise the acknowledgment of an abominable lot of people, that we should accept this actual aboriginal and actual artistic architectonics in Wood Lane.'
He afterwards branded it a 'blight on the neighbourhood' in the programme.
Two changeable passers-by additionally remarked: 'It reminds me of a spaceship that has landed in a little gap. I can see why bodies wouldn't like it because it isn't article that goes with the area.'
While addition resident, who confused to the neighbourhood in 1970, added: 'We accept lived actuality aback 1970, and some bodies anticipate the abode looks abominable and some anticipate it is interesting… It's a amount of taste.'
But Kevin - who agreed it has spaceship-like qualities - was ardent with the four-storey acreage which appearance a solid annular advanced that faces the street, and a chaotic bottle bark perched on top.
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Grand Designs - Articles - North Wales suppliers - All 4 | Grand Designs Cliff HouseThe alone ellipsoidal apartment are those of the bedrooms on the arena attic anchored in the landscaped garden, while the high accouter houses the access hall, bathroom and a studio.
A across-the-board annular access takes the company appropriate up to the top accouter - a active amplitude and a winter garden that looks out into the celebrated south London suburb.
The absorbed presenter questioned what kept the brace so apprenticed to realise their dream home and to go through all the trouble.
'It's like we're maximising the befalling to adore how you live. Highly acquainted spaces that bear actual appropriate experiences,' answered Mr Russum.
The abode - which took added than a decade to realise - has a annular appearance that faces on to the street, and a affecting chaotic bottle bark which perched on top
A across-the-board access takes the company up to the high accouter - the autogenous evocative of a ship, with anchorage holes for window and a ample bottle windows
SOUTH STREET
This arguable corten animate clad beach home may accept been declared by the RIBA board as a 'window to the world', but locals in Lewes, East Sussex were not as blessed aback the acerbic anatomy was erected.
South Artery overlooks the River Ouse in a attenuated artifice of acreage aloof 11 metres wide, that was aggress by difficulties from the get go.
Featured in a antecedent adventure of Grand Designs, the owners Stephen and Anita Yeomans spent £700,000 on a anatomy that abounding locals hoped would never appear to fruition.
The above ambassador Susan Murray recalled in the Abode of the Year adventure how abundant she abhorred the five-bedroom automated aggressive acreage and against the planning.
'Ugly in one word. We appetite to reflect our automated ancestry but I'm aloof not abiding an beastly architectonics afraid out like a abscessed deride is absolutely the way to go about absorption that heritage,' she said.
The arresting South Artery five-bedroom acreage is sandwiched amid the River Ouse and a bifold carriageway on an 11-metre advanced plot
The autogenous is altogether crafted with an open-plan active breadth on the basal attic with bristles bedrooms and three bath on the high floor
Considering its access into the Abode of the Year antagonism she joked: 'It's absolutely an abnormal architectonics and I can see why a anticipation console would go for article a bit different, but I aloof achievement to advantage there are some added adorable barrio out there that ability win.'
The Yeomans spent £60,000 on the animate cladding that artisan Sandy Rendel used to actor the above automated appearance barrio surrounding the plot, as able-bodied as accord it the arresting orange-red colour.
With a bound nine-month agenda the acreage was accomplished in December 2015, with the Yeomans applicable in the bearing of a babyish and a bells in Anita's citizenry of New Zealand afore they acclimatized in.
Presenter Kevin McCloud credibility out that the abode was never activity to be universally liked.
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Futuristic coastal home from Wales to be showcased on Grand ... | Grand Designs Cliff HouseGushing he adds: 'Of advance bodies will say it is a 'rusting metal box', but it is a beautifully advised and alluringly crafted metal box and in the apple of architectonics that makes all the difference.'
The RIBA board acclaimed the abode for actuality a 'window to the world' acknowledgment to its angle overlooking the river and land
But the corten animate cladding, which gives it the arresting red-orange blight colour, wasn't accustomed by locals including the above ambassador who branded it 'ugly'
NESS POINT
A alcazar which anon mirrors the White Cliffs of Dover on which it sits, makes the continued account of the accumulation aggressive by water.
The RIBA board said that autogenous artisan and buyer Logan Watt's arresting four-bedroom Ness Point altogether fit aural the affair because it was 'growing out of the acreage which it is embedded'.
Logan explains how the arced advanced bank echoes the curves of the somewhat added ragged appearance of the cliffs. The adjustable affair runs throughout the autogenous with folding walls and screens that accessible the amplitude and accomplish use of the beauteous angle - on bright canicule France is arresting on the horizon.
The arced advanced bank of Ness Point echoes the craggier curves of the White Cliffs of Dover on which the arresting white abode sits
There is no charge for wallpaper aback the big-ticket arced bottle gives beauteous angle of the bank - on bright canicule the bank of France is arresting on the horizon
Knocking bottomward his parents' ancestors home, he capital to anatomy article future-proof for his children.
Despite the artisan Mike Tonkin accepting to manoeuvre about a bluff collapse which adjourned build, Logan's absolute analysis accepted his thirties-inspired bank home would be safe for at atomic addition 400 years.
The abnormal abode doesn't accept anybody convinced, however, with one neighbour complaining: 'It reminds me a bit of Hollywood, but Hollywood is not annular actuality so I anticipate article added English would be nicer to see. I anticipate it is a bit out of place.'
Owner Logan Watt was aggressive by thirties bank houses. RIBA said the architecture of the acreage meant it appeared to be 'growing out of the acreage in which it is embedded'
One of Logan's neighbour believed that Ness Point belonged in the Hollywood Hills rather than the UK bank and capital article added traditional
REDSHANK
This one-bedroom home was aggressive by the seabird it was called afterwards - the affected redshank with characteristic red legs and a admirable brindled amber anatomy ascent out of the sea.
Perched on the saltlands of the Essex coast, nestled amid Colne Point Nature Reserve, the flat was congenital for artisan Marcus Taylor.
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Welsh seaside home by Hyde Hyde sits on the edge of a cliff ... | Grand Designs Cliff HouseGoing able-bodied over his advised £100,000 budget, the bunched anatomy is fabricated up of cork and balk board frames and a set on a cantilever.
Redshank is called afterwards the seabird which aggressive its appearance - an affected beastly that has characteristic red angular legs and a amber brindled body
Although aloof 49sqm in size, the one-bedroom flat has a ample open-plan dining are and kitchen, bath and a ample balustrade absolute for birdwatching
It appearance a decidedly ample open-plan dining breadth and kitchen, one bedchamber and bathroom, and alert a day is amidst by the sea aback the course draws in.
The architectonics is in a somewhat alien area, with his own ancestors home abutting by, but it stands out on the bank and one neighbour Christopher Harbord said looks like it could booty off and airing at any moment.
Admiring the acreage he said: 'We anticipation it looked rather like the War of the Worlds, this behemothic affair with continued legs boot their way forth the planet.'
Although the marsh acreage in which it was congenital accepted arduous to assignment with, it makes for a admirable mural aback the course draws in alert a day surrounding the abode with water
EDINBURGH ROAD
A bungalow congenital not aloof on the sea 'but captivation it back' is how long-list access Edinburgh Alley in East Lothian is described.
The aboriginal acreage had been affiliated by Archie and Trisha Macdonald, who capital to transform the bungalow that had it's aback adverse the sea and about-face it about to booty advantage of the littoral landscape.
They encountered problems aback they apparent that the absolute roof of the aboriginal architectonics bare replacing and the foundations were crumbling.
The brace had to bore their activity accumulation into the property, but concluded up with a beauteous two-bedroom home with a pine-clad addendum area the abolition after-effects are actually aloof a stones bandy away.
The aboriginal bungalow had been in Trisha Macdonald's ancestors aback the sixties. The brace affiliated it and absitively to transform it
The autogenous appearance across-the-board appearance inline with the sea aloof alfresco the advanced door. The abode is anchored into the sea wall
The bungalow had originally faced the road, with its aback to the sea, so the brace absitively to clean axis it about to booty advantage of the view
The two shortlisted backdrop will be appear on Grand Designs: Abode of the Year tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm
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