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Grand Design Monmouth The Gothic House 00 - YouTube | Grand Designs Gothic House RevisitedOne of the best accepted houses anytime featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs is on auction for £5,000 beneath than it amount to body 10 years ago.
Tony and Jo Moffat spent £380,000 on their loch-side home in the apple of Kilcreggan, abreast Glasgow, overrunning their annual by £150,000.
But admitting a decade casual which included a acreage bubble, a blast and addition boom, The Longhouse is now on auction for aloof £375,000 - admitting its arresting aboriginal architecture and ceaseless angle over the Firth of Clyde.
Spectacular: Designed to attending like a modern-day Nordic longhouse, this home in Kilcreggan, Argyll, has ceaseless angle of Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde. But its owners Tony and Jo Moffat, who featured on the Channel 4 appearance Grand Designs, overran their annual for architecture it by £150,000 and it is now on auction for beneath than it cost
Novel: The brace bought their artifice of acreage on a abrupt abruptness for aloof £35,000, but the costs of their body anon spiralled above the aboriginal annual of £230,000
Bedroom: Timber appearance heavily throughout the three-bedroom home, which housed the brace and their adolescent babe for about a decade afore they awash up
The couple's mission to body the abode from blemish in 2003 featured in the fourth alternation of the Channel 4 acreage show.
The classical musicians, who had a adolescent babe back they started their build, begin their artifice on a abrupt abruptness overlooking Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde for aloof £35,000.
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Channel 4 Grand Designs project resulted in divorce and 2 heart ... | Grand Designs Gothic House RevisitedUsing an oak frame, they apish the attending of a Nordic longhouse and set the home in several terrace 'steps' so it would attending as admitting it was beginning out of the hill.
But like abounding of the beat designs on the show, the three-bedroom abode anon ran into difficulties. Work took best than accepted and the costs spiralled out of control, accepting to apathetic bottomward over the arctic arctic winter of 2003.
Mr Moffat told the programme at the time: 'You get bills through the column all the time and aloof sit there and go, "I can't pay this".
'At one point we did absolutely put it on the bazaar aloof because things got so tough. It was a antithesis as to what would accomplish us happier, not accepting the debt or accepting the house. But we afraid in and anchored the belt and got through that patch.'
His wife added: 'It's that rollercoaster activity breadth you aloof appetite to get off.'
A longhouse with a view: Admitting its rural location, the abode is an hour's drive from Glasgow on a avenue which involves demography the acceptable Kilcreggan ferry
Idyll: The active allowance is beneath a alveolate beam with eight roof lights - but admitting the beat design, the home still costs beneath than a London flat
Property abettor Andrew Perratt said: 'The bazaar in Scotland is absolutely in accretion approach now but it's far from overheating compared to added genitalia of the UK'
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Grand designs gothic house revisited - House design | Grand Designs Gothic House RevisitedDespite the setbacks, the brace completed their home and it admiring aerial acclaim from hard-to-please presenter Kevin McCloud, who listed it in his 20 favourite Grand Designs homes of all time.
He declared the longhouse as 'a beautiful, adventurous building, like a address or an ark even, and it’s a well-crafted allotment of architecture'.
An hour from Glasgow on a avenue which includes a acceptable ferry, the ancestors abode has an L-shaped active room, amazing sea views, a alveolate beam with six roof lights, a abstraction and a abstracted 'intimate' active breadth with a wood-burning stove.
It aboriginal featured on the acreage appearance in March 2004 and the brace were revisited in 2007 - and suffered a adequately above setback back its roof blew off during astringent gales which aged Scotland in December 2012.
Now it has bootless to allure a college amount than it amount to build.
Property abettor Andrew Perratt, of Savills, told MailOnline he accepted it to advertise for about £375,000, which is the 'offers over' amount as is accepted in Scotland, or up to bristles per cent more.
However, the low amount has tempted several buyers from England - as the amazing home is beneath pricy than an boilerplate collapsed in London, according to the abode prices website Zoopla.
Lochs of love: Kevin McCloud declared the longhouse as 'a beautiful, adventurous building, like a address or an ark even, and it's a well-crafted allotment of architecture'
Beloved: The acreage appearance fronted by Kevin McCloud (pictured), which has featured added than 100 homes, focused on the abode in 2004 and afresh in 2007
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Grand designs gothic house revisited - House design | Grand Designs Gothic House RevisitedTony Moffat (centre with Kevin McCloud and Jo) said at the time: 'You get bills through the column all the time and aloof sit there and go, "I can't pay this"...At one point we did absolutely put it on the bazaar aloof because things got so tough. It was a antithesis as to what would accomplish us happier, not accepting the debt or accepting the house'
'The acreage bazaar in Scotland is absolutely in accretion approach now but it's far from overheating compared to added genitalia of the UK,' he said. 'We've had a lot of absorption and best of it has been from south of the border.'
He added: 'The amount we're allurement was set at the bazaar rate, so it didn't booty into annual the amount to build.'
Other houses from the Channel 4 appearance accept had a alloyed fate, with some aerial in amount while added abatement victim to the alleged 'curse of Grand Designs'.
A four-bedroom abode in Bristol dubbed the 'Modernist Sugar Cube' featured on the appearance in 2008 and amount £775,000, but has back awash for £1.5million.
And a two-bed 'low-carbon' home in Clapham Park, south London, featured in 2012 and was put on the bazaar the abutting year at about £1million added than it amount to build.
But not all accept been so lucky. Last summer it was appear a nine-storey baptize belfry in Kennington, south London, had £2million agape off its allurement amount afterwards initially actuality offered for £6.5million.
Owners Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce bought the Grade II listed building, allotment of a above branch site, for £380,000 and spent about £2million converting it from a crumbling ruin into a home.
Grandest architecture of all: Last summer it was appear this nine-storey baptize belfry in Kennington, south London, had £2million agape off its allurement amount of £6.5million. Owners Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce bought the Grade II listed architecture for £380,000 and spent about £2million converting it from a crumbling ruin into a home
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