'Yah, lovely acorns,' says Justin, admiring their dazzling lustre while giving the impression he can't remember how much they cost (4,000 each). When he said he had 60% in savings. Another wrote: "Can't tell you how jealous I am of the man who's converting a graveyard gatehouse into a gothic mansion WITH A MOAT on @Channel4 #GrandDesigns right now.". He wants to restore the lodge and demolish the toilet blocks. Although Justin remembers seeing the likes of David Bowie and Mick Jagger on the island, his parents always kept a low-key presence. But as is often the case with these kinds of builds, time drags on, costs mount, and even a private gate into the cemetery becomes a problem. Photo: Jefferson Smith. I think it would be fair to say that he had grave misgivings about the whole thing. The plan is to knock down the loos, build a new extension where they once sat and then extend the neo-gothic Grade II listed lodge by excavating a hefty amount of ground underneath it, constructing a huge mega-basement. A GRAND Designs revamp has been labelled the "best of all time", after a "mad" dad spent four years transforming an abandoned Neo-Gothic home in a cemetery. Winter Love Island 2023 final date confirmed and its just around the corner, Clarksons Farm star in shock as fans raise tens of thousands for TB-hit farm, Incredible five-bedroom home The Curve, as featured on Grand Designs, on sale for 3.45million, Boy, 16, designs Covid Invaders arcade game to encourage vaccinations, Do not sell or share my personal information. These include a kitchen/dining area, snug, living room, and a basement with a subterranean swimming pool. No, he was worried about something else, something much closer to home. Justin was going to have lots of neighbours, as presenter Kevin McCloud pointed out, but they were all going to be dead. The ground floor living room is so fabulous. Well, ahem. 'Inside was a giant oyster shell I recovered from the Seychelles, and inside was the ring,' he says. With a comprehensive slate of services under a single roof, The LA Group minimizes impact, maximizes value, and ensures every project begins and ends on solid ground. For private, municipal, state, and federal facilities, the firm's cemetery design services include: Feasibility studies. A dad stunned Grand Designs viewers in the 'craziest episode ever' after spending four years and 4.2 million on transforming a cemetery into his dream home. I'd love to know. To decorate and furnish a house that had two distinct sections the new wing with open spaces and the smaller lodge with original features. A Grand Designs episode stunned viewers when a dad turned a lodge and toilet block in a cemetery into a manor house with its own moat and swimming pool.. Justin Maxwell-Stuart is a multimillionaire whose mum was the heiress of a shipping company and bought the plot from Fulham council for 1.6million in 2016. Justin Maxwell-Stuart, 50, from London, bought an abandoned keepers lodge and an adjoining ex-council toilet block in Fulham cemetery for 1.8 million in 2016. Further grand flourishes include a stone, The question was if the extension should mirror the style of the stone-built lodge or whether it should be something different. Sienna loses the twins in social services nightmare after shock incident in Hollyoaks? The build is one of the biggest budget projects on this series, with the property costing 1.8 million and a further 1.6 million budgeted for the renovation work, but costs mount rapidly, leaving Justin with two very large mortgages to service. 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How have you adapted your home during the pandemic? He raised the first part through savings and a loan from his mother; the second part is from a labyrinthine tangle of mortgages that I failed to understand. The couple met at a party three years ago and have been together ever since. 'One bit of a wife of Henry VIII and it would have been curtains,' is how he puts it. It isnt exactly what his man is going to do the prospect of ripping up graves to build a baronial architectural masterpiece is a little much, even for Grand Designs but his man, former army captain Justin Maxwell Stuart, is quite happy to live next to a graveyard, and has a big plan to do so. The modern extension contrasts with the lodge. Theres a need to bring a house together with an overarching view. The benefit is that the entire project is well thought through from end to end. But Justin says his personal grand design always had to make financial sense and be worth its own value. His parents were friends with Mustique's owner Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner another Scottish aristo and in the 1960s were one of the first two families to develop a plot on the private island, along with lifelong Mustique devotee Princess Margaret. It wasn't just that his development was situated inside a West London cemetery, cheek-by-trowel with tombstones and crypts. When we left off at the end of the episode, Justins home had been completed, with a total cost of 4.5 million including the 1.8 million he had originally spent on buying the place. #GrandDesigns, Heather The Fruit Bat (@TubbyBats) January 6, 2021. Within 5 kilometers of your location. Grand Designs South West London 2021 Justin plans to restore a neo-Gothic cemetery keeper's lodge and convert its toilet block into a luxury extension complete with a moat and swimming pool.. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. A third also added: "Possibly the greatest #GrandDesigns ever. The house is in a graveyard on a busy London road but this room is so peaceful. Theres beautiful green space just outside, so this is definitely my favourite space. "And I wanted a chance to do something really special.". GRAND Designs revamp labelled the best of all time, Justin's dream home comes complete with a swimming pool and moat. I don't think she was particularly impressed, to be quite honest. As series 20 of the ever-soothing, ever-ambitious show begins, we learn that Grand Designs' latest builder/dreamer/victim has spent 1.8m on the warden's lodge in a Victorian cemetery and an. But we struck a good balance of creating flow between rooms and making sure they are warm and cosy. I listened to Justin who told me how he loves the outdoors, being near the sea, and blue tones. 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. I now own a house in London thats steeped in history and has 13 acres of green space around it, he said. Ex-army captain Justin has a dream of transforming a home which is surrounded by graves, and loves the south west London cemetery lodge. James' mother was Mehitabel Wing, born March, 20, 1738, in Duchess County, N.Y. Glens Falls, N.Y., was once named Wing Falls after her . The aim was to knock down the toilet block and replace it with a ground floor extension, a moat and a basement with a swimming pool. As well as the initial purchase, Maxwell Stuart has estimated that the work will cost an additional 1.6m. We did not have to buy a single bit of meat for five months,' he roars. When Colin Tennant invited them to his grand costumed 50th birthday party, they did not attend. Financial issues were followed by the coronavirus pandemic, which led to work on the lodge being halted for months. The expensive plans that Justin has for the home is nothing short of easy. It is amazing what you can achieve when you've got millions sluicing about in your sporran. But one of Justin's biggest fears would be that the team would dig up a grave. We want to hear all about it. GRV Media Ltd, 18 Mulberry Avenue, Widnes. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Schools in London face disruption as teachers stage strikes, Former Met acting commissioner described rape as regretful sex, Detectives hunting for Constance Martens baby find remains of infant, London Ambulance Service told to improve its ethnic diversity, Shocking moment moped narrowly misses 70mph train at level crossing, FTSE 100 Live: ITV, Taylor Wimpey and Flutter post results, What is the Willow Project? s soon as Kevin McCloud sets the scene a graveyard in south-west London you know the latest instalment of. Of course! its a bit spooky.. Justins home features in the first episode of Grand Designs 2021 series, but the question is whether they ever managed to finish building it Former army captain Justin hopes to restore a neo-Gothic cemetery keepers lodge, and turn it into his dream home in south west London. London Bridge overcrowding: Give TfL control of Southeastern trains, Motorist fined 650 after council paints disabled bay around his car. Have something to tell us about this article? From an early age, wee Justin became adept at hunting, shooting, fishing and spent boyhood Christmases at the family's holiday home on Mustique in the Caribbean. into a majestic modern home with a mega man-cave playboy basement, complete with outdoor moat, indoor chainmail waterfall, subterranean swimming pool, wine cellar and all mod cons including underfloor heating and a pair of forged steel chandeliers shaped like bursting seed pods. Find out more about how we use your information in our privacy policy and cookie policy. The controversial Chesil Cliff House at Croyde - which is. Demolishing the blocks and turning them into an extension, the project has even more issues as the property is surrounded by a grave site. When Simon suggested that the new section should be contemporary, built from Bath stone to form a link between the two halves, I followed his lead. Get the latest London news straight on your phone without having to open your browser - and get all the latest breaking news as notifications on your screen. public service announcement: Grand Designs is back tonight. Former army captain Justin, who now runs extreme fishing expeditions, decides to do something really off the beaten track, converting the original neo-Gothic lodge and derelict public toilet next door into a dramatic modern home within the cemetery gates which are locked at night. A 4.5m 'Gothic' house built in the grounds of a Victorian graveyard and featured on Grand Designs is causing quite the buzz on social media. 2023 GRV Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved. It is a fascinating insight into the strange economics of the aristocracy. ", But one said: "Not a great starter episode in Covid times. Maxwell Stuart is thoroughly can-do about the whole thing, even when logic suggests he shouldnt be, and its hard not to wish him the best with it. 'But that's not all she can do,' says Justin, explaining that during the first lockdown they were holed up on his 2,500 acre Scottish estate, feeding themselves from a freezer full of game. Fans on social media were beyond impressed with the outcome, as one said: "Bloody love #GrandDesigns and what an episode to start the new series. The story of the Prendergast Mansion begins with the history of James Prendergast, founder of Jamestown, and how he came to settle here. Appearing on Channel 4's Grand Designs, dad-of-one Justin revealed his plans to transform the derelict land in 12 months and with a budget of 1.6 million - but things didn't go to plan. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Buried in Lakewood, New York, USA. Yes, I know what you are thinking. Anyone with a passing interest in the grotesque excesses of Londons richest inhabitants will know all about mega-basements, with floor upon floor being added to old houses by way of digging down, and deeper. On my own.'. You can change your choices at any time by visiting your privacy controls. Local papers often carry complaints about the practice from residents, but here, Maxwell Stuarts neighbours are relatively undemanding, since they are buried six feet under. Justin Maxwell-Stuart, 50, from London, bought an abandoned keepers lodge and an adjoining ex-council toilet block in Fulham cemetery for 1.8 million in 2016. Don't stint on the cushions, Morag! A dad both baffled and stunned Grand Designs viewers in the "craziest episode ever" after he spent four years and 4.5 million transforming a cemetery into his dream home. Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud observed one of the most unique builds in the history of the show on Wednesday evening, which saw a 4.5m house go up in a south-west London graveyard. Born in 1951. I would watch a compilation of Kevin McClouds attempts to suppress any sort of facial response to the wildly gung-ho plans and financial implications laid out every few minutes. From Kanazawa in Japan, Hideko moved to the UK and has worked for Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal, running the latter's celebrated experimental kitchen. Appearing on Channel 4's Grand Designs, dad-of-one Justin revealed his plans to transform the derelict land. He explained: "I thought, now my life is in turmoil and chaos, I now have the opportunity to do something off the beaten track. But will the project turn into a terrifying nightmare? I was brought up in Scotland where houses have so much character, and I liked the idea of recreating that in London, Justin explains. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. If you live one kilometre down the road, you will think it is bloody good value. She is a world-class pastry chef and now runs her own company. If he worried that he may find himself staring down a catastrophic financial black hole in 2016, well, wait and see what happens when the pandemic rolls around. 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It is simply not the Maxwell Stuart way, darling. When asked if he plans on having any more children, he says: 'I'm not ruling anything out.'. 'After my fifth attempt to shove some peanuts down her throat, she said: "Thank you very much, dear boy. When the for-sale sign appeared in late 2014, he had to find out more. Were having to deal with the real-time issues that people are encountering and that makes all of the stories a little rawer. This amazing home was transformed on Grand Designs. The original scheme didnt make the most of the possibilities, says Simon. Dad-of-one Justin Maxwell-Stuart,. Let us know in the comments below. Picture: Channel 4. The MyLondon app gives you all the stories you need to help you keep on top of what's happening in the best city ever. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. The basement den is a cosy space to watch TV and drink cocktails. But Justin Maxwell Stuarts big budget cemetery wardens lodge renovation was a notable exception. A series of gardens around an innovative property in Fulham Cemetery - the house is soon to be featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs. Aspiring self-builders rejoice Kevin McCloud is back on our screens with a new set of extraordinary new homes to ogle. "Worst case scenario is we find one of Henry VIII's wives.". A nickel bath adds a luxurious element to Justins ensuite bathroom. He hails from an aristocratic Scottish family who can trace their lineage directly back to Mary Queen of Scots yes, he is one of those Stuarts and he grew up in a 1,000-year-old grand house ('so I'm used to living in old buildings') and estate in Peeblesshire. It also gave the basement an extra bedroom, a media room, a larger wine cellar and a sauna. Almost overnight, this man and this house have become a huge local attraction but like father, like son he does not notice the starry hubbub at all. Grand Designs returns! 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