7.1/1019 votes#1 - The Apprentice Store, Somerset
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 1/28/2009
Ian and Sophie Cooper met at university and have since spent their time together enjoying life in London. Ian works as a marketing consultant in telecoms and Sophie is a sales manager for a fashion firm. Both are passionate about design. They’ve done the usual thing of renovating flats and moving on... but three years ago they realised they wanted a different kind of life in a different kind of building.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1015 votes
#2 - The Chilterns Water Mill, Oxfordshire
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/2009
Inspired by an illustration on a yoghurt pot, Chris Ostwald decides to build a New England-style water mill in the Chilterns, on a hill and nowhere near any water.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1018 votes
#3 - The Newport Folly, Newport
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/2009
Sarah and Dean Berry grew up on a council estate in Newport. Having moved away to London and made good, they have now returned home 17 years later and bought an 18th century folly - a castle perched on a hilltop. They not only plan to restore the folly to its former glory, but wrap a large modern extension around the original structure, with lots of glass to capitalise on the amazing views.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1019 votes
#4 - The Eco Arch, Kent
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/2009
Kevin McCloud follows the progress of architect Richard Hawkes and wife Sophie, who are moving from London to the Kent countryside to build a hi-tech eco-friendly house with room to grow their own food. Richard also wants their new home to blend effortlessly into the surrounding countryside, concealed beneath a huge arch of clay tiles covered with earth and planted with grass
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1017 votes
#5 - The Brittany Groundhouse, Brittany
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/2009
Daren Howarth and Adi Nortje are keen to build an earth-sheltered home from recycled materials in Brittany. The house is a very low tech one, mainly constructed from old car tyres.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1015 votes
#6 - The Marlborough Farm house, Wiltshire
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 3/4/2009
Dairy farmer Andrew Ainslie and his artist wife Meryl, who run a gallery on their farm, build a modern barn-style farmhouse on their 700 acre farm in the rolling chalk hills of Wiltshire.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1018 votes
#7 - The Prefabricated house, Kent
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/2009
Mimi De Costa and her husband Andre, a doctor, had spent years looking for a plot of land when they came across a bungalow in Kent. The original bungalow They bought it for the site - 12 acres of organic pasture and woodland - and started to plan a new home for their sons, Sean and Tye, that would suit a lower impact way of living. But what they're building isn’t going to be a reproduction of the bungalow. It's a squarish, modular building, with glass walls from floor to ceiling. The outside of the building is clad in cedar that will go grey to match the surrounding oak trees. The idea is that by prefabricating most of the house it should be quicker and easier to put together on site. But although it will be precision made, it isn’t a kit house.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1018 votes
#8 - Revisited- Yorkshire: The 14th Century Castle
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 4/8/2009
Every Englishman’s home is his castle but for Francis Shaw this is quite literally true. He and his wife, Karen, and their two young daughters, bought the ruins of a 14th Century castle in Yorkshire and took on the remarkable challenge of turning a pile of stones into a beautiful home. Surrounded by rolling green fields, the location is idyllic; however, the castle itself was little more than four crumbling walls.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1016 votes
#9 - Revisited: The Hexagonal Straw Baled House, Cambridgeshire
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 3/25/2009
Kevin returns to see how Daren Howarth and Adi Nortje's project has fared four years after they decided to build an earth-sheltered home in Brittany.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1018 votes
#10 - Brighton- The Modern Mansion
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/2011
A Building Contractor and his wife who is a Nurse, build a large modern 6 bedroom house on a hill in Brighton. It has an amazing view and the owner has many ambitious design ideas including huge curved glass expansive windows. He lives next door and needs to renovate and sell the house on the other side of the plot. Everything starts out wonderfully, even though he has just had a double hip replacement. But other health problems loom, along with the housing market to deflate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1015 votes
#11 - Revisted: The Thatched Cottage, Hampshire
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 4/15/2009
Eight years ago Alex and Cheryl Reay left London for a new life in the New Forest.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1014 votes
#12 - Revisted: The Loch House, Killearn
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 4/22/2009
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1014 votes
#13 - Revisited: The Woodman's Cottage, Sussex
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 4/29/2009
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Grand Designs Season 9
Every episode of Grand Designs Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Grand Designs Season 9!
British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
Genre:Documentary
Network:Channel 4
Season 9 Ratings Summary
"The Apprentice Store, Somerset" is the best rated episode of "Grand Designs" season 9. It scored 7.1/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/28/2009. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Chilterns Water Mill, Oxfordshire".