A TV star's home in Herefordshire has been unmasked, with planning documents showing he has taken on his own Grand Design.

Kevin McCloud, known for presenting the popular Channel 4 programme Grand Designs, snapped up an "unloved former farmhouse" in Herefordshire in 2021, the Daily Mail reports. 

House price sales data from the Land Registry shows that the price paid for the house, in Bosbury, near Ledbury, was £1.1 million.

And planning documents from Herefordshire Council show that the owner of the listed farmhouse is none other than Mr McCloud.

The presenter was granted permission by Herefordshire planners in 2022 to make alterations including re-landscaping gardens, rebuilding and cladding the wall of the home's rear hall, and making internal alterations including to staircases. 

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The changes approved also include the removal and insertion of modern partitions, removing ceilings over the rear hall and utility, changing floor finishes, architraves and skirtings, and fitting secondary glazing.

A design and access statement accompanying the 2022 application said the "substantial timber framed farmhouse", which dates back to around 1600, has been extensively altered and refurbished over the centuries.

The works would be sympathetic to the character of the building and site, the statement said.

A further application made by Mr McCloud for the variation of conditions attached to planning permission granted for the conversion of a group of barns at the farm was approved in 2021.

The Daily Mail reports that Mr McCloud said this week that he had put a year's worth of evenings and weekends into doing up the home, including installing a new IKEA kitchen.

Kevin McCloud is not the only TV star to make their home in Herefordshire. 

Other famous county residents include former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, who lives in south Herefordshire, and Bez of the Happy Mondays.