Restoration Man Best Builds

A couple who hoped their old Fisherman's church in Devon would bring them together, to a young father whose single-minded dedication to restoring a medieval Welsh Chapel almost broke his young family apart. In rural Cumbria, restoration novices risked financial ruin to transform the village Church's iconic spire and a couple from Newcastle.

A couple in rural Rothbury battled through ill health to restore 17th Century Thrum Mill, restoration novices took on more than they bargained for when they converted two 17th and 18th Century listed barns in Herefordshire, a free-spirited maverick strove single-handed to restore an idyllic Loch-side Ice House in North West Scotland.

A pair of railway enthusiasts who breathed new life into a derelict water water tower on the Settle to Carlisle railway; The heartbreaking story of a heroic couple who battled illness to turn their Georgian windmill into a beautiful family home; the ex-squaddie who never gave up on the tricky restoration of a 17th Century fortified Tower in Scotland; and the conversion of a water tower.