A lighthouse-inspired home that featured on the 'saddest ever' Grand Designs episode has finally sold after 12 years of renovations. Chesil Cliff House became infamous after the home's construction left its owner Edward Short, 57, in £7 million of debt - as well as divorced. The construction of the home took 12 years and went several million pounds over budget - hit back by the recession and ultimately costing him his marriage to wife Hazel. It featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs and was described as the "saddest episode ever" by many who watched it after airing in October 2019.

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The episode followed Edward and his family as misfortune beset the project leaving the house in Croyde, Devon, unfinishe

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