Northamptonshire was featured on Channel 4’s long-running TV show Grand Designs last night (Wednesday, October 23). Advertisement Advertisement The episode, hosted by Kevin McCloud, followed husband and wife Adam and Tassy as they embarked on the ambitious task of converting a water tower in the village of Roade into their home. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Northampton Chronicle and Echo, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Opening the show, Kevin said: “What a magnificent brute. This concrete column stretches over 20 meters into a cold Northamptonshire sky. It was built to supply water to a local piano factory and has been derelict for almost 40 years.
"It's not the most elegant water tower I've ever seen. This is infrastructure central. There's a train line running through there, an electricity substation just here.
And this thing commanding the whole time, it is a colossus poured from liquid stone, but never intended to be a home. Yet a home is exactly what Adam and Tassie, its new owners, want it to become.” Advertisement Advertisement In 2019, the couple shared: “We always had a dream, a passion to self-build.
We were looking for old farms or barns or something like that we could convert, and then we came across this. I thought it was amazing. Adam’s always been confident.
I'm a bit more like, ‘oh my god, what have we done?’ What we want to do with it is for it to be fun, but it's got to be practical as well.”.
