Award-winning Grand Designs & I’m a Celeb home faces ‘immediate threat’ of crumbling into the sea after huge landslip ...Middle East

AN award winning house that featured on Channel 4’s Grand Designs and I’m a Celeb is at risk of crumbling from a cliff into the sea.

The owners of the unique property in Criccieth, Wales, have submitted a planning application for cliff stabilisation works after a recent landslip saw the home come dangerously close to collapse.

Named Cefn Castell, the idyllic £1.3 million house sits on the edge of a cliff surrounded by beautiful countryside and is now under “immediate threat” from coastal erosion.

It featured on Grand Designs in 2014 when then owners Rob and Kay Hodgson constructed the property.

Inspired by a maritime theme and coastal observation stations the couple used stone from a 400 year old cottage to construct their ultra modern clifftop mansion.

Erosion specialists predicted at the time that it would eventually fall into the sea and the recent landslip brought the property closer to its eventual collapse.

In 2019 a range of experts predicted the life of the home to be about 140 years.

Plans say “a significant landslip occurred in February, 2024” sparking concern that the TV famous home could soon be lost beneath the waves forever.

The erosion of the coastline has posed an “immediate threat” to the stability of the entrance to the house, with the boundary wall now hanging out precariously over the clifftop.

In the wake of the disaster Cefn Castell’s current owners have submitted a planning application to the local authority, Cyngor Gwynedd, to carry out stabilisation works.

The work to save the property from a watery grave will require complex and expensive specialist engineering processes.

Urgent action is required, according to the homeowners, with the nearby coastal path now also at risk from the erosion.

The iconic property, now at risk of being lost forever, was a winner of a national RIBA award and shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year.

It was also shortlisted as a national finalist in the LABC Awards and has featured in architectural magazines, journals and TV programmes.

Following its construction in 2014 the home featured on Channel 4’s Grand Designs show, presented by Kevin McCloud with discussion focusing on its precarious clifftop position.

After it was let for 196 days in 2024 it brought a number of tourists and visitors to the area.

The planning application says it has “significantly contributed to the local economy.”

It featured in I’m a Celebrity in 2021 when contestants raised a glass inside the home.

The 2000 sq ft property was originally designed by Manchester architects Stephenson Studio.

Urgent action is now required to save the iconic house and the adjacent Welsh Coastal Path.

Plans say the cliff face is “prone to erosion and rockfalls” which poses “potential risk to the property, the coastline, and public safety.”

Works to save the property from falling into the sea will include rock nailing, gabions and a rock revetment to ensure long-term protection, according to plans.

It’s hoped that the work will be able to be carried out in a way that integrates with the surrounding picturesque landscape.

Wire mesh cages, known as gabion baskets, will be filled with stone in an attempt to form a structure to support the slope and prevent water erosion.

High tensile steel anchors will be installed in the cliff face in a process known as “rock nailing.”

A “rock revetment” will see a large “armour” of stones placed at the base of the cliff to absorb wave energy.

If plans are approved it will mark the second time works have been carried out in a bid to save the property from falling into the sea.

Work carried out just a year after the impressive home was built in 2014 saw large boulders installed to prevent coastal erosion.

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