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Ketsuda Phoutinane

Inside Grand Design's 'saddest ever' home as lighthouse revisited after 11-year nightmare

Grand Designs has returned to the lighthouse once dubbed 'saddest ever house' after it underwent a dramatic makeover.

On Wednesday night, viewers were reunited with Edward Short whose struggles were featured on the programme back in 2019. The ambitious project was mired in setbacks that plunged the homeowners into millions in debt and ended in the split of the owner and his ex-wife Hazel.

Chesil Cliff House is now complete after an astonishing 11-year saga. Once dubbed a "sad and cautionary tale about overreaching" by presenter Kevin McCloud, the programme showed how the nightmare build overcame the odds.

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