Kevin McCloud meets Cumbrian couple Rob and Ruth, who have bought a 200-year-old former blacking mill and plan to slot in an entirely new, timber-clad structure within its walls, giving the impression that it is peeping out from the original ruins. But the original building is a scheduled monument and Historic England inform them it is too dangerous to repair, giving them no choice but to painstakingly rebuild the ancient mill around their new structure.

Grand Designs Season 22 Episodes...

• s22e01 - South Devon: Art House
• s22e02 - West Sussex: Triangular House
• s22e03 - Scotland: Black Minimalist House
• s22e04 - Ely, Cambridgeshire: Malay House
• s22e05 - Chichester, West Sussex 2021
• s22e06 - Cumbria: Blacking Mill House
• s22e07 - East Essex 2021

Grand Designs Show Summary

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud.

The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way.