Grand Designs Peckham, 2005: The Sliding Glass Roof House

Kevin McCloud meets Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe, who can’t afford to buy a house in London, so they’ve decided to build one on a small sliver of land in Peckham, in the south of the capital. Monty envisages an extraordinary experimental house, complete with sliding glass roof lights and mezzanine bedroom pods, bringing a slice of space-age design to the area., Kevin McCloud meets Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe, who can’t afford to buy a house in London, so they’ve decided to build one on a small sliver of land in Peckham, in the south of the capital. Monty envisages an extraordinary experimental house, complete with sliding glass roof lights and mezzanine bedroom pods, bringing a slice of space-age design to the area. Kevin McCloud returns to find out how many gizmos Monty managed to squeeze into this unique home.