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Episode Guide
East Devon, 2013: The Cob Castle
Series: Grand Designs
Series Progress: Episode 3 of 1916% Completed
Synopsis
Kevin meets a master craftsman whose dream is to build a castle made entirely of mud. Kevin McCabe is the leading living exponent of the ancient art of cob building - wrestling houses out of mud using his bare hands. Kevin has almost single-handedly kept alive this traditional way of building in rural Devon. But now he doesn't just want to build another cob house, he wants to build a cob castle. Not only that, Kevin also wants their gigantic new cob house to meet the highest environmental performance targets ever set. It is truly an almighty challenge. The house will be formed of two vast curved cob roundhouses - the largest of which is inspired by the natural geometry of a snail shell - connected by glazing and topped with undulating wild-flower meadow roofs to mirror the surrounding Devon countryside. But to build it involves mixing and laying a mind boggling 2000 tonnes of cob, all during warm sunny weather. Kevin is determined to have the main cob walls up in a few months. But soon the sheer scale of the task becomes clear.
📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 14 hours 20 minutes (19 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Moderate Burn - Story-dense episodes. Best spaced out over a week.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 19 days
3 episodes/day: 7 days
5 episodes/day: 4 days
Episodes (19)
- S13E11 - Jakso 11
- S13E07 - South London, 2013: The Modernist Masterpiece
- S13E08 - East Devon, 2013: The Cob Castle Viewing
- S13E09 - Newbury, 2013: The Christmas Farm
- S14E01 - North Wales, 2014: The Clifftop House
- S14E02 - North Cornwall, 2014: The Cross-Laminated Timber House
- S14E03 - Milton Keynes, 2014: The Round House
- S14E04 - County Londonderry, 2014: The Shipping Containers House
- S14E05 - South East London, 2014: The Urban Shed
- S14E06 - Norwich, 2014: The Periscopes House
- S17E04 - Essex: Black House
- S17E04 - Jakso 4
- S17E05 - Jakso 5
- S18E06 - Jakso 6
- S18E07 - Peak District: Post-Industrial House
- S18E07 - Jakso 7
- S18E08 - Jakso 8
- S18E08 - London: Minscule House
- S03E05 - Buckinghamshire, 2003: The Inverted Roof House