Confirmed city dwellers Michael and Phil have moved to the country to run a farm, start a micro brewery and create in a vast, dramatic 21st-century farmhouse to live in. Michael Butcher and Phil Palmer were confirmed Londoners, loft-livers in the heart of Soho. Until they fell in love with Christmas Farm, near Newbury, and took the life changing decision to quit their urban media jobs and move to the country. They faced two big problems however: first there was an agricultural tie on the land, so Phil and Michael would have to become farmers; the second problem was the uninspiring faux-alpine timber chalet serving as a farmhouse - it had to go. But Phil and Michael have decided they don't want to build a regular brick farmhouse as a replacement. Determined to bring a bit of urban glamour to their new home, they want a 21st-century farmhouse unlike anything the area has seen before. Phil and Michael's version cleverly combines a vast, white, dramatic open-plan party pad upstairs, with muddy functional farming spaces below. As the builders go to work on the extraordinary hand-crafted flint exterior, complete with the largest sliding trapezoid window in Britain, Phil and Michael must juggle construction with farming the land. And in order to make it all work financially they decide to set up a new micro-brewery in the barn.
| Title | Grand Designs - Season 13 Episode 9 : Newbury: Christmas Farm |
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| Alternative Titles | Vores store byggeeventyr, Grandes Diseños, طراحی های عظیم, 宏觀設計 |
| Subtitle Available |
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| First Air Date | 1999-04-29 |
| Last Air Date | 2025-11-12 |
| Number of Episodes | 252 |
| Number of Seasons | 27 |
| Genres | Documentary, |
| Networks | Channel 4, |
| Casts | Kevin McCloud |
| Plot Keywords | , |
Episodes List
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 1 The 1920s Cinema The 1920s Cinema
2013-09-04British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 2 North London: The miniature Hollywood mansion North London: The miniature Hollywood mansion
2013-09-11British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 3 York: The Giant Farm Shed York: The Giant Farm Shed
2013-09-18British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 4 Devon Devon
2013-09-25British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 5 South Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire
2013-10-02British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 6 Monmouthshire: Japanese House Monmouthshire: Japanese House
2013-10-09British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 7 South London: Modernist Masterpiece South London: Modernist Masterpiece
2013-10-16British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 8 East Devon: Cob Castle East Devon: Cob Castle
2013-10-23British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 9 Newbury: Christmas Farm Newbury: Christmas Farm
2013-10-30British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 10 Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
2013-11-06British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Grand Designs Season 13 :Episode 11 Revisited: Woodbridge: The Modest Home Revisited: Woodbridge: The Modest Home
2013-11-13British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
